CLAN error messages

Thu May 11 18:54:40 UTC 2017

Yes that worked. Thank you very much.

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Davida Fromm <fromm at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Note the difference between the apostrophe in the word “didn’t” (it's a
> curly apostrophe) in that line and the apostrophes in other lines — e.g.,
> “she’s” 2 lines above (it’s straight).  Actually, I see a few more curly
> apostrophes in your transcript.  You can use the Replace option in the Edit
> drop down menu, copy and paste the curly apostrophe into the “Replace"
> field and then type (or copy and paste) a straight apostrophe into the
> “with” field, then hit "Replace all”.  That should fix the problem.
>
> -Davida
>
> On May 11, 2017, at 1:33 PM, JONATHAN JIN <jinj10 at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
> Thank you. I solved two problems but the error message saying unmatched
> found on tier is still giving me problems. I have attached a picture with
> the error message and the line it is referring to has my cursor over it. It
> starts with "first of all my cousin David...".
> Could you help me solve this error message?
> <IMG_0316.JPG>
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:55 PM Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Jonathan,
>>
>>     Here are some answers:
>>
>> 1.  When you have a blank line in a transcript, CHECK not only gives you
>> the line number in a message down in the bottom error bar, it even
>> highlights the blank line and you delete it.
>>
>> 2.  The "unmatched found on the tier" should probably say "unmatched
>> paired delimiter found on the tier".  This means that you have something
>> like and open angle bracket "< " with no closing bracket ">"  or it could
>> be a square bracket.  These always have to come in pairs.
>>
>> 3.  The "symbol not declared in depfile" could be any sort of strange
>> non-word character sitting my itself.  CHECK tells you the line number.  It
>> is hard for me to know what you might have there without seeing the line.
>> Just try to remove anything suspicious and see if that makes CHECK happy.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Brian MacWhinney
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *<chibolts at googlegroups.com> on behalf of JONATHAN JIN <
>> jinj10 at mcmaster.ca>
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>> *Date: *Thursday, 4 May 2017 at 12:57 AM
>> *To: *"chibolts at googlegroups.com" <chibolts at googlegroups.com>
>> *Subject: *CLAN error messages
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello, could you help me problem solve a couple of error messages?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Symbol not declared in depfile
>>
>> 2. Blank lines not allowed
>>
>> 3. unmatched found on the tier
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Jonathan Jin.
>>
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