how to find number of codeswitches per utterance

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Marissa,
     Good question.  You are right that KWAL will only pull out utterances with code switches without counting them.  To count them, you can take the output of KWAL and then use FREQ with the +s switch, as in 
freq +s”*@s*” *.cha
There are various combinations possible here.  I see you are excluding the English utterances in your KWAL command by using -s”[- eng]” and that makes sense if you want to focus on code-switching to English in utterances that are primarily Spanish.

— Brian MacWhinney

> On Oct 27, 2021, at 8:24 PM, Marissa Castellana <macaste8 at asu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am working with bilingual English-Spanish transcripts. I am looking to find the number of within-utterance code-switches. I created a kwal file from my original .cha files, using the following code kwal -s"[- eng]" +s*@s* @ +o% -d +f, which produced a kwal file of utterances that contain code-switching. How can I find the number of code-switches that occur in each utterance? For example, it is possible that an utterance contains one codeswitch "did you see the carro at s?", but it is also possible that there are two or more cases of codeswitching, such as "did you see the carro at s that passed by so rapido at s?" 
> 
> Thank you very much!
> Best,
> Marissa
> 
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