definitions of MOR part of speech codes

[Rose Hartman]

Dear Brian,
Thank you so much! This is just what I needed.
Best Wishes,
Rose

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Rose,
>
> This information was implicit in the big table on pages 175 and 176 of the
> CLAN manual, but to make it more explicit, I added a column listing the
> part of speech used by each lexicon file.  And I also added some important
> material to the paragraph just before the table to describe features coming
> from the 0affix.cut, sf.cut and punct.cut files.
>
> Also to make that table correspond to the actual files, I divided up a
> couple.  So, please get a new copy of the manual and of ENG and hopefully
> all of this will be clear.
>
>
>
> --Brian
>
>
>
> *From: *ChiBolts <chibolts at googlegroups.com> on behalf of Rose Hartman <
> rosemhartman at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *ChiBolts <chibolts at googlegroups.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 5:27 PM
> *To: *ChiBolts <chibolts at googlegroups.com>
> *Subject: *definitions of MOR part of speech codes
>
>
>
> Dear chibolts,
>
> I am interested in examining patterns in CDS for words of different parts
> of speech, and I am hoping to be able to use the %mor line from CHILDES
> corpora for this analysis. I am running my analyses in R, using regular
> expressions to identify the part of speech for each word, which is working
> very well (thank you for making these excellent corpora available!). I am
> having trouble interpreting some of the MOR codes, however.
>
> Is there a complete list anywhere giving the definitions of the MOR codes?
>
> I was able to find several informative posts on this topic (
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chibolts/5N8m43WrCZs/jSkHAm6aSY8J,
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chibolts/mLxcw2qyPpk/-wOqnUhh3HgJ,
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chibolts/zAevVn1HUoU/ULg-ub4iBAAJ), but
> none actually provide a complete list of definitions of MOR tags for
> English. The CHAT manual <http://childes.talkbank.org/manuals/CHAT.pdf>
> provides definitions and examples for common codes (Table 45 p.114, and
> Table 50 p.118) but omits many less common codes, and the article linked at
> the top of the MOR grammars page <http://childes.talkbank.org/morgrams/>
> is helpful in terms of understanding how MOR works but does not define the
> MOR codes themselves except as examples. I have also examined the English
> mor files, as Leonid
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chibolts/mLxcw2qyPpk/bvVDqGl974oJ> and
> Brian <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/chibolts/zAevVn1HUoU/v4sFNHUtBAAJ>
> have recommended, and while this yields a (nearly) complete list of the
> codes, I couldn't find anything like definitions of each. Many are obvious
> (n is noun, v is verb, det is determiner) but I'd like to be able to check
> a few (e.g. n:pt, meta, bq, cm).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help, and for maintaining this fantastic
> resource!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rose
>
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