Coding unintelligible language

Fri Apr 23 21:08:16 UTC 2021

Dear Brian,

Thanks again for your response. I will try these out and see what I can do.

Have a great weekend!
Elnaz

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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 1:55 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Elnaz,
>
> It seems that you are talking about doing global changes across a
> collection of files.  If the changes are simple, you can use the CHSTRING
> program. Howe However, for more complex changes, I use BBEdit and there are
> also some other editor programs such as SublimeEdit and Atom. I have never
> tried Atom, but is gets good reviews.
>
> — Brian MacWhinney
> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
>
>
>
> > On Apr 23, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Brian,
> >
> > Thank you so much for your prompt and helpful response. I do have one
> more question. Is there a way to batch edit CHAT files? For instance, my
> transcribers used different ways to code unintelligible utterances and I
> want them to revise those instances to assure consistency in coding.
> However, they have already transcribed hundreds of files and it is really
> time-consuming to go back and edit them one by one.
> >
> > I would really appreciate any help or guidance on that.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Elnaz
> >
> > Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
> > Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> > Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> > University of Utah
> > LinkedIn
> > Personal Website
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:56 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> > Dear Elnaz,
> >
> >       Yes, it is okay to use repetitions of xxx, if you want to mark the
> fact that several words are unintelligible.  Many analyses exclude
> sentences with unintelligible segments, so it doesn’t really matter in such
> cases whether you have just xxx or xxx xxx.  However, representing how many
> words are missing might be helpful when listening to the audio.
> >
> > — Brian MacWhinney
> > Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
> > Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 22, 2021, at 6:50 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I have a question about coding unintelligible language with xxx. Here
> is my understanding based on the 2020 CHAT instruction manual (MacWhinney,
> 2020):
> > >
> > > - If a complete utterance is fully unintelligible, I should mark the
> utterance with xxx.
> > > - If I am able to tell the number of words that are unintelligible,
> then I should use that many strings of xxx. For instance, if the utterance
> is “I am a teacher” and I can only get the “I am” part, but I hear 2 other
> words that are unintelligible, then I should code the sentence like this:
> > > “I am xxx xxx.”
> > > - I can use as many xxx strings as I want for the number of words that
> are unintelligible.
> > >
> > > Would you confirm my understandings?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Elnaz
> > >
> > > Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
> > > Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> > > Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> > > University of Utah
> > > LinkedIn
> > > Personal Website
> > >
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