Timedur analysis

[Leonid Spektor]

Hello Santina,

1.	There was a problem with TIMEDUR excluding utterances with postcodes. I have fixed it and installed new CLAN on childes web site. If you do not want to install new version of CLAN on your computer, then you can use KWAL command to remove utterances with postcodes from analyses using this command:

kwal -s"[+ POSTCODE]" +d +f filename.cha

After that run TIMEDUR on the output of KWAL command. Of cause, you need to replace "POSTCODE" keyword with whatever postcode you are using in your data files.


2. I have testing TIMEDUR on example file "clip.cha", that we distribute with CLAN in folder "CLAN/examples", and all line numbers in "# CUR" column are matching datafile. I would ask you to email to me a sample file that produces mismatch on your computer and include the command line you used.

3. TIMEDURE command does not use %tim tier. I am not sure where you got an information about %tim tier, but the current CLAN manual located at URL "" does not mention %tim tier under 9.27 TIMEDUR section that describes the use of TIMEDUR command. There are two ways to exclude utterances that you are not interested in. One is to put appropriate postcode on that utterance and the  other is to create a "gem" around utterances that you are interested in. In both case transcript would have to be changed. If you want to know more please contact me directly and I will explain it in more details.


Leonid.

On Mar 27, 2015, at 15:47, Santina <santa.temi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am new to the use of CLAN and I have some questions to ask.
> 
> I am conducting the Timedur analysis and I would like to exclude some utterances from the count. I have tried this by using the postcodes, as for MLU and MLT, but the CLAN output lists all the utterances. Is there a command to exclude the utterances in which I am not interested?
> 
> Also, the numbers showed in the "# cur" column do not correspond to those in the transcript. What can I do to have them matched?
> 
> In some cases, I need to remove periods of time in which the participants are doing something not related to the task. To do this, I have used the following command: 
> timedur CHI -t%tim, however the output says that "Tier %tim, associated with a selected speaker, hasn't been found in the input data". How should the transcript be? 
> 
> I will appreciate any suggestion.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Santina
> 
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