how to find number of codeswitches per utterance

'Cynthia Core' via chibolts chibolts at googlegroups.com
Thu Oct 28 00:55:30 UTC 2021


I would ask Erika Hoff how she and Sylvia Place dealt with this.
Cynthia Core

On Wednesday, October 27, 2021, Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> 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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Cynthia Core, PhD, CCC-SLP
Associate Professor
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
The George Washington University

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