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

[Sarah Surrain]

Dear Leonid,

My apologies for the typo! The languages header I used was

@Languages:    spa, eng

-Sarah

On Monday, February 24, 2020 at 10:08:07 PM UTC-5, Leonid Spektor wrote:
>
> 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 <sarahs... at gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> 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
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