Quote marks affecting language tagging

['Cathy Lonngren' via chibolts]

Hi,

I am testing my bilingual CHAT files to check whether I have coded the
material accurately. I'm doing this by running freq commands like the
following:
freq @ +t*MOT +l -s"*@s" +u +o  (this would give me a list of all the
English words used and would highlight any Portuguese words that I have
failed to code appropriately (as they shouldn't be there!). However, it
appears that something is going wrong when words are enclosed in quote
marks. For example in the following excerpt, both of MOT's quoted "cinco at s"
end up being tagged as English (cinco at s@s:eng). When I tried adding a space
between the @s and the " (see *JAM: "cinco at s ") then it seemed to work
(i.e. it no longer featured on the 'English' word list for JAM). So, is
this what I should do in all such examples? As quoted material in
Portuguese occurs quite a lot in the corpus I wanted to check whether this
was the best method.

*JAM: [- por] é dez.
%add: MOT
*MOT: no, I said “cinco at s”. [+ ep]
%add: JAM
*JAM: “cinco at s ”?
%add: MOT
*MOT: yeah, how do you say “cinco at s” in English? [+ epe]
%add: JAM
*JAM: [- por] inglês é?
%add: MOT
*MOT: uhuh.
%add: JAM
*MOT: count o(lha)@s +...
%add: JAM
*JAM: cinco at s she's[?][*] “five[/] five”. [+ pe]

Many thanks,

Cathy

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