Participant ID

[Leonid Spektor]

Hi Elnaz,

Your question has two aspects:

>From technical point there is nothing wrong with speaker codes if they are shorter than 9 characters including the * character at the beginning. They can have numbers and/or letters in any combination you want. One way you can see if what you are doing is okay is by running CHECK command on your data files. If the result is "ALL FILES CHECKED OUT OK!", then all is good. Otherwise, you should fix whatever error is reported.

>From non-technical or preferred point I will leave it to Brian MacWhinney, who designed CHAT format, to answer your question.

Leonid.

> On Aug 11, 2021, at 03:22, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> I had a question about the participant ID in CHAT. In our corpus, all the files are single-speaker and the participant ID includes 5 characters, one letter representing the language, and 4 digits representing a unique student id).
> 
> @Begin
> @Languages:	zho
> @Participants:	c0002 IDc0002 Student
> @ID:	zho|corpus|c0002|0;00.00||||Student|||
> @Media:	c0002cadr01_1, audio
> @Transcriber:	Xiqiang Wang
> @Comment:	hum, ahn, ah, eh signal hesitation
> @Situation:	unspecified
> *c0002:	eh (..) . 
> *c0002:	wo3 (..) . 
> *c0002:	eh . 
> @End
> 
> According to the CHAT Manual (2021, p. 21), "After the asterisk on the main line comes a three-letter code in upper case letters for the participant who was the speaker of the utterance being coded."
> 
> My questions are: 
> 1. How does the fact that our participant IDs are 5 characters and include digits affect CLAN functions?
> 2. If having more than 3 characters is okay, does it matter whether the letters are capital or small (c0002 vs. C0002)? Which one is preferred?
> 
> I would appreciate any help!
> 
> Thanks,
> Elnaz
> 
> 
> Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
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> Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) <https://l2trec.utah.edu/>
> University of Utah
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