coding multiple successive non-speech utterances

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Lise,

     It appears that our other checker (Chatter) accepts this.  So, it is just a problem with CHECK.  I will see if Leonid can remove this constraint in CHECK.  By the way,  doesn't this remind you of the subject of:

Menn, L., & MacWhinney, B. (1984). The repeated morph constraint: Toward an explanation. Language, 19, 519-541. 

I always wanted the title of that article to be "Enough is enough".  So why do we have to write &=squeals nine times?

-- Brian MacWhinney, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, LTI and Modern Languages, CMU




> On Feb 15, 2019, at 12:33 PM, lise menn <lisemenn62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> CHAT allows an abbreviated coding for repeated speech utterances (no, no, no, no) but the same coding convention is rejected for non-speech.
> 
> In particular:
> 
> CHI squeals nine times in a row, but Check rejects the line 
> *CHI:	&=squeals [x 9].
> 
> Can I code this without re-repeating the line  *CHI:	&=squeals.  ?
> 
> Thanks, Lise
> 
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