Error Message: Unmatched ' found on the tier

[Brian MacWhinney]

You are probably using “special” apostrophes, rather than the apostrophe that sits next to the semi-colon key.  This is usually caused by editing files in MS-Word, rather than CLAN.  If you use the special apostrophes from Word, CLAN thinks that they are markers of a second level of quotation and then they have to be paired.

—Brian MacWhinney

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Nan Ratner Lab <nanratnerlab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello again!
> 
> When running CHECK on a transcript the error message "Unmatched ' found on the tier" came up for many tiers.  We were unsure if this had to do with the use of apostrophes because each of the lines it applied to had an apostrophe in it (e.g. "I don't really know", "It's a baby", etc.).  We have used apostrophes in other files before and this has not been an issue so I was curious what the problem could be.  We uninstalled and reinstalled the CLAN program as well as the ENG folder, however, this has still not solved the problem.  All help is appreciated!
> 
> Thank you,
> Allison
> 
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