conversational turns in CLAN?

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Janet,
    CHIP is designed to track patterns of feedback to the child, not turn-taking.  As I understand it, you are trying to actually count the "turns" as defined by a change of speaker.  If that is the emphasis, then you could create a rather complex cross-tier COMBO search patterns that looks for instance of *CHI followed in the next utterance by *MOT.  For your example, that would give you 3 such sequences.  You could create another pattern to search for the opposite sequence with *MOT followed right away with *CHI.  Perhaps you could read the part of the manual that talks about cross-tier COMBO for the details.

-- Brian MacWhinney, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, CMU




> On Dec 20, 2018, at 8:34 PM, Janet Bang <jbang at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> We are trying to see if there's a way to automate a count of turns between a child and an adult within a transcript. We saw that with CHIP, we can get the number of responses to a child's utterance, but this value counts multiple utterances as separate responses, rather than one turn. 
> 
> For example, for the following interaction we would count 5 turns: 
> MOT-CHI
> CHI-MOT (MOT has 4 utterances, but count as 1 turn)
> MOT (same MOT as one above)-CHI
> CHI-MOT
> MOT-CHI
> 
> *MOT: come here !
> *CHI: xxx .
> *MOT:
> come here let's sing the A_B_C_s at s .
> *MOT: ready ?
> *MOT: a at l b at l c at l d at l . 
> *MOT: you don't want to sing ?
> *CHI: no .
> *MOT: are you sure ?
> *CHI: no .
> 
> 
> Is there some way to combine MLT and CHIP to get a value that represents turns as above? If that is too difficult, we could also go without the responses serving as the initiation of the next turn, meaning that the this would be 3 turns as in:
> MOT-CHI
> MOT(1 turn, 4 utterances)-CHI
> MOT-CHI
> 
> Apologies if I've missed this in another function, 
> Janet
> 
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> Janet Y. Bang, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Psychology
> Stanford University
> 
> jbang at stanford.edu <mailto:jbang at stanford.edu>
> 
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