Using the gem and freq commands on bilingual data to get types and tokens by language for different activities

[Leonid Spektor]

Sarah,

	English language code is three letters as all other language codes are. For English the code is "eng".


Leonid.

> On Feb 24, 2020, at 20:18, Sarah Surrain <sarahsurrain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am working with Spanish-English bilingual data from parent-child dyads. In the header, I have specified the languages as 
> @Languages:    spa, en
> and I have used [- eng] precodes for English utterances and @s tags on English words embedded in Spanish utterances.
> 
> I would like to use gem markers to segment the transcripts by activity (such as book reading) and then run a freq command to count the number of tokens in Spanish and English used by the parent and child during that activity.
> 
> I used this command to retrieve only the book reading activities and create new CHAT files with headers:
> gem +sbook +d1 +f *.cha
> 
> Then I tried these commands on the output to create an Excel file with the types, tokens, TTR and MATTR for each language:
> freq +l +s*@s:eng +d3 +b10 *.cha
> freq +l +s*@s:spa +d3 +b10 *.cha
> 
> However, I am getting these errors: 
> Language "eng" is not defined on "@Languages:" header tier.
> and
> Illegal use of "@s", no alternative language in position 1 defined on @Language: tier.
> 
> I can fix this by manually pasting the @Languages line into the header in the new file that I created using the gem command. Is there a way to automatically create CHAT files using the gem command that retain the @Languages line?
> 
> (I also tried the gemfreq command (gemfreq +sbook +l +s*@s:eng +d3 +b10 *.cha) but I wasn't able to create an excel worksheet with the types, tokens, etc for each participant. I got the error: The only +d levels allowed are 0–1).
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Sarah Surrain 
> 
> Sarah Surrain, Ed.M.
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Harvard University FAS | GSE
> https://scholar.harvard.edu/sarahsurrain <https://scholar.harvard.edu/sarahsurrain>
> 
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