coding addressees

[A Cristia]

Dear Chibolters,

We would like to classify utterances as addressed to the key child, to 
other children, or to adults, to later analyze separately addressed, 
overheard, etc., within CLAN and outside (e.g. applying word segmentation 
algorithms). There is already a standardized format for this mentioned in 
the manuals, but I wonder whether there are less costly alternatives (we 
are coding 2 continuous hours of each child).

The chat manual (p. 79) describes:
 

*Addressee Tier %add: *

*This tier describes who talks to whom. Use the three-letter identifier 
given in the par- ticipants header to identify the addressees. *


**MOT: be quiet. *

*%add: ALI, BEA *

*In this example, Mother is telling Alice and Beatrice to “be quiet.” *


And the CLAN manual (p. 128):

*9.21.1Including and Excluding in MLU and MLT *

*Researchers often wish to conduct MLU analyses on particular subsets of 
their data. *

*This can be done using commands such as: *

*kwal +t*CHI +t%add +s"mot" sample.cha +d | mlu *

*This command looks at only those utterances spoken by the child to the 
mother as ad- dressee. KWAL outputs these utterances through a pipe to the 
MLU program. The pipe symbol | is used to indicate this transfer of data 
from one program to the next. If you want to send the output of the MLU 
analysis to a file, you can do this with the redirect symbol, as in this 
version of the command: *

*kwal +t*CHI +t%add +s"mot" sample.cha +d | mlu > file.mlu *



Although this is useful, this requires having an %add line for every 
transcription line. When there are only two partners talking to each other, 
it would be easier to define them throughout (only marking deviations) 
rather than repeating the information. Does anyone have any tips as to how 
this would be accomplished? For instance, could this be done combining a 
long scope event (gem-style) with local switches, as is done for example 
with languages (eng defined by default, switches marked with [- spa] or 
@s:spa)?


Thank you in advance,


Alex Cristia

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