Nouns per utterance

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Brielle,

   EVAL does what EVAL does.  Adding new things requires programming changes and people seldom look at “nouns per utterance”.  However, you can use MLU to count first the number of utterances with 
mlu +o3 +u *.cha
Perhaps you don’t want all speakers, in that case something like
mlu +t*PAR +u *.cha
Perhaps you want a single file.  In that case, something like
mlu +t*PAR file.cha

Then to count the nouns, you can use FREQ on the %mor line, as in 
freq +t%mor +s”n|*” *.cha
You may again want +u or +t*PAR or even +d4.  Just read the FREQ options.

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

> On Sep 9, 2019, at 2:36 PM, brielle.stark <brielle.stark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello! Is there any way to use eval or freq to get 'nouns per utterance' rather than verbs? Many thanks :) Apologies if the answer is obvious!
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