+xCN switch in KWAL

[Leonid Spektor]

Julianne,

	You interpreted the +xCN option correctly, the 'm' does stand for morphemes. I have changed KWAL usage to make more clear. The other consideration is that the 'm' option will only work correctly if you have +%mor: tiers in your data files. Last this is that there was a problem with the way KWAL was counting morphemes on %mor tier and as the result it might have missed some utterances in the output.

I have fixed this and if you get new program from dali.talkbank.org/clan/ <https://dali.talkbank.org/clan/>, then the "+x=1m" and "+x=1w" options will produce different results, assume that speaker does actually use multi-morphemes words.

FREQ's "+sm;*,o%" option will interfere with "+xCN" option. If you want to use FREQ with "+sm;*,o%" option, then you should first use KWAL with "+x=1m +d +f" options, for example, and then run FREQ with "+sm;*o%" option on the output of KWAL.

Leonid.

> On Jul 23, 2020, at 13:24, jgar... at umd.edu <jgarbari at umd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone could clarify how the +xCN switch in KWAL works. I was wondering if I could use this switch to produce only utterances with a certain morpheme length.
> 
>  It says under KWAL, in the manual and when I type kwal into the commands window:
> 
> +xCN: include only utterances which are C (>, <, =) than N items (w, c, m), "+x=0w" for zero words
> 
> I can't find a definition of what "w, c, m" means, but if the +x=0w is for 0 words, then I thought maybe +x=1m could get me all of the 1 morpheme utterances, etc. However, when I run +x=1m it gives me all 1-word, not 1-morpheme utterances. (The output for +x=1m and +x=1w are exactly the same.)
> 
> Is the "m" here supposed to be for morphemes? I can't seem to locate a definition. I do see that under TTR, it says "The only new element in this command is +sm;*o%. The +s option tells FREQ to search for and count certain strings. The m tells the program to look at the %mor line. The semicolon says to look at the stem and then the *,o% says to ignore everything else."
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Julianne Garbarino
> 
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