marking extraneous words as errors

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Daisuke,
    I would treat the first of these two examples as a retrace.  I would treat the second case as a semantic error involving the choice in English between the definite article, the indefinite article, and zero marking, as noted in section 18.1.2 of the manual. This coding isn’t quite right, but quite close.  In general, if you need to track error types in very specific ways for your research, you could create additional fine-grained codes using methods as in that section.

*CHI:	there are a [/] so many people living in the [* s:r:gc:art] Japan

Note that it is also possible the what you hear as “a” might have been the filled pause “uh” which we transcribe as &-uh. The fact that the verb is “are” rather than “is” argues for this interpretation.


— Brian MacWhinney

> On Feb 4, 2022, at 6:52 AM, Daisuke Miyamoto <dmiyamoto at g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to ask you whether it is possible to mark extraneous words as [: 0] [*]. For example, does the following transcription make sense?
> 
> *CHI:        there are a [: 0] [*] so many people living in the [: 0] [*] Japan .
> 
> By using [*], I intend to mark "a" and "the" as errors (incorrect use of a determiner). At the same time, I thought [: 0] can be used in order to exclude "a" and "the" from the %mor and %gra tiers. 
> 
> If this tagging does not seem to work, could you let me know if we have any other way to mark extraneous words as errors?
> 
> Best,
> Daisuke Miyamoto
> the University of Tokyo
> 
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