Question about tagging prompted language in a transcript

[Amanda Huensch]

Dear Brian,

Thank you very much! That works perfectly.

Amanda

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Brian Macwhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Amanda,
>
>      If what you want to do is to exclude a whole utterance, then the
> usual method is to insert a postcode, such as [+ exc] and then you would
> use the command with the -s”[+ exc]” switch.  I think this is a good method
> for whole utterance exclusion.  However, you also want to exclude strings
> within utterances and for clarity you should use a different method for
> that.  The only problem there with your [@g] code is the actual syntax of
> the code.  It should instead be [% g] and then you also need to add the
> second switch -s"<% g>”.
>
> —Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Amanda Huensch <amandahuensch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All-
>
>
> We are attempting to code some language in our transcripts such that it is
> ignored in a freq count. We have narrative data which includes language
> that was prompted by written text in the stories (e.g., “every morning was
> the same”) that we don’t want to be included in some analyses. Sometimes
> the language is an entire utterance and sometimes it is a partial utterance
> (examples below).
>
>
>
> The current way we are coding this language to be ignored is by using
> angle brackets to select the language to be ignored and adding [@g] at the
> end of the line. So, for example:
>
>
>
> 13    *400:            <so this is the story of Natalia and her cat
> Pancho> [@g] .
>
> 14    *400:            <every morning was the same> [@g] .
>
> 15    *400:            Natalia &euh read to her toys .
>
> …
>
> 23    *400:            and they went home together .
>
> 24    *400:            <until one day> [@g] when Pancho left the house he
> was scared away by a dog .
>
>
>
> Then, using this command
>
>
>
> freq @ +t*1* +r6  -s"<@g>"
>
>
>
> we get a word count without that language.
>
>
>
> While this seems to work for us at the moment, my concern is that when I
> conduct an esc+l, I get the error message:
>
>
>
> ([@g] highlighted): Symbol is not declared in the dep file
>
>
>
> My questions then are: (1) Is there a better way to accomplish this goal?
> or (2) Is there a way to use this method but not get the error message?
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Amanda
>
>
>
> PS If it is the case that we can/should continue to code this way, do you
> foresee complications with phrases that already have angle brackets (the
> count still appears to work). So, for example:
>
>
>
> *400:     and she said <<did he say France> [= r]> [@g] ?
>
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