Thematic unit and code-switch codes

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Ran,
    See below.

> On Sep 13, 2021, at 11:28 AM, Ran Li <rli92 at bu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to analyze some discourse data for bilingual patients with aphasia, and here're two specific code-related questions:
> 
> 1) When the frequency of thematic units is calculated ("@e:tu"), CLAN doesn't pick up those following a phonological paraphasia, e.g., irl at e:tu for the target girl. Is there a way to make CLAN to recognize these codes?

Please send me a sample that has these codes, along with the version of the FREQ command you are using and identifying which number in the output is wrong.
> 
> 2) Specifically for bilingual patients, I've been using "@s" to code cross-linguistic errors. But in cases where the response has a phonological error (e.g., target language is English, patient's response is in Chinese: bao at s for [pao] - means running in Chinese): (a) how should I code the thematic unit? and (b) can I use replacement [: ] so that MOR can process it as a real word? If so, should I replace it with the word in the target or the non-target language?
> 

If the focus of your work is on thematic units, it would be best not to try to jam all of this information in the special form marker.  So, using the Chinese replacement form [: pao at s] would be the best approach.

—Brian MacWhinney
> Thank you,
> Ran
> 
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