Marking addressee and excluding from MLU counts

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Caro,
     Exclusion is easiest if you would use a postcode as in:

*MOT: what do you want? [- sib]

Then you would be adding the -s"[- sib]" code to your various CLAN commands.

Best,

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


> On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Rowland, Caroline <crowland at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> We want to both transcribe utterances addressed to siblings of the target child but also to sometimes exclude them from MLU counts.  This is because sometimes we will want a measure of how much CDS a particular adult is using (no matter the addressee) and sometimes we will want a measure of how much CDS is addressed to a particular target_child.
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> Normally we would mark utterances addressed to a non-target child (e.g. a sibling) using a dependent tier; e.g.
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> *MOT: what do you want?
> %add:   SIB
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> If we transcribe like this, is there then an easy way to then exclude these utterances from an MLU count; or indeed from any other CLAN command?
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> Or do we need to use a different notation?
> 
> Thanks
>  
> Caro
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