Frequency of words

Wed Sep 13 19:00:17 UTC 2017

This is why we've always had -sm** and -sm@* which tells the program to not
evaluate things that are within brackets, like [: targets]. We've
transcribed orthographically, with an error code directly behind, such
that: furry [: fairy] [* phon] or similar. Therefore the lexical analysis
of mor doesn't evaluate 'furry'...

Thanks,

Brie

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Nan Bernstein Ratner <nratner at umd.edu>
wrote:

> A partial response, as I rush off to a meeting:
>
> I always encourage mispronunciations (furry for fairy) to be coded as the
> actual target. If it's just a pronunciation problem and that is not the
> focus of our current work, I might make a %com tier comment so as to find
> it later if we do post-hoc phonological analysis, but typing wabbit for
> rabbit will screw with the MOR program, and typing furry for fairy will
> screw up lexical analyses.
>
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> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Brielle Stark <brielle.stark at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I have a question about calculating word frequency. We're working with
>> aphasia participants who will often make mistakes, and when they do make
>> mistakes, we'll put in the intended word into [: target] if we know what
>> the intention was. However, I do not want to count [: target] words in the
>> frequency tally of words. Basically, if someone said furry [: fairy] in one
>> instance, and I am looking for a frequency count of the correctly spoken
>> 'fairy,' I want the frequency calculation for 'fairy' to be 0, thus
>> ignoring the word in the target. Further, I'd also like to run for lemmas
>> and not morphological changes. In other words, if I'm looking for "stair,"
>> I want 'stairs' to be counted in the frequency of 'stair' usage.
>>
>> *Detail:*
>>
>> When I run the command:
>>
>> *freq **-sm** -sm@* **+sCinderella +sstair +sfairy*
>>
>> on the attached transcript [completely made up, by the way], it evaluates
>> the %mor line but doesn't ignore the target [: target] words like I thought
>> it would. It does do the correct job in tagging 'stair' even though the
>> participant said 'stairs,' a correct usage from the %mor line. Output of
>> frequency for this command was:
>> Cinderella: 1
>> stair: 1
>> fairy: 1
>>
>> However, as I said, I wouldn't want the incorrect furry [: fairy] to
>> count. So, I tried:
>>
>> *freq -sm** -sm@* +t*PAR +sCinderella +sstair +sfairy*
>>
>> Now that I've told CLAN to stick to the speaker tier, it then ignores
>> 'stair' because 'stairs' was written, which isn't what we were going for.
>> However, it correctly does not look within the [: target] and correctly
>> states that 'fairy' was said 0 times. As an added point, I've also found
>> that when I run the above command on transcripts, it sometimes gets the
>> counts incorrect. For this command, I get the count:
>> Cinderella: 1
>> stair: 0
>> fairy: 0
>>
>> So basically, is there any way to tell CLAN to run the analysis on the
>> %mor tier for frequencies of words [specifically, lemmas], but somehow to
>> specify to ignore [: target] words on the speaker tier?
>>
>> In an ideal world, from the attached transcript, I'd be getting the
>> frequency counts as:
>> Cinderella: 1
>> stair: 1
>> fairy: 0
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Brie
>>
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