.cut files

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Cathy,
    Leonid answered your basic question about the shape of .cut files for the +s option used by COMBO or FREQ, as well as your questions about searches with periods. 
    I will try to answer a few more of your questions. 

1.   If you want the output to include more options, rather than fewer, you would want the +slong^*^ago option for "long ago" with anything in the middle.

2.  Regarding "bound morphemes that might be mistakenly dropped", I don't see how those would figure with the words "long" and "ago" but I could imagine other examples, such as +sremov*^*^slipper" for the Cinderella story in which you want to match "remove", "removing", and "removed", but maybe the "ing" was deleted.  I'm not really sure what you have in mind,  but that is the general idea.

3.  For your question about use of what you call "gloss", I am thinking you are really interested in what CHAT calls the replacement symbol, as in [: minute].  The switch that controls that is +r5

-- Brian MacWhinney

> n Jun 5, 2020, at 4:39 PM, Cathy Eaton <cathyeaton12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello out there,
> 
> I have some specific questions about how .cut files work. 
> 
> 1) If there is a multi-word phrase like "wait a minute," will CLAN find files that include intervening words like "wait just a minute"? I am wondering if I need to list possible variations or if there is a way to account for more options. Of course, I'd rather the output include more possibilities than fewer. Similarly, for a phrase like "a long time ago," an individual with aphasia might only include "long ago." In this case, CLAN probably wouldn't include the abbreviated version, correct? Would it be better to just include key words in the phrase like "long ^ ago"? What about bound morphemes that might be mistakenly dropped?
> 
> 2) A related issue that specifically pertains to individuals with aphasia is whether CLAN will find entries where there is a gloss. For example, if the transcript contains an attempt for 'minute' that has a number of phonemic errors followed by [minute], will CLAN include that entry in the search?
>  
> 3) Can the .cut file include punctuation? For instance, I'm interested in the response "good ." but not 'good' used as an adjective. Similarly, I'd like to search "I think..." as a sentence frame rather than "I think ." as a complete sentence. Is there a way to make this distinction?
> 
> Thank you as always for your help!
> 
> Cathy
> 
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