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

[Leonid Spektor]

Sarah,

	In this case the problem is that GEM does not copy @Languages: header to its output. Add option +t@ or +t at Languages to GEM command.


Leonid.

> On Feb 25, 2020, at 07:44, Sarah Surrain <sarahsurrain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <https://scholar.harvard.edu/sarahsurrain>
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