is [: has] - query wrong verb

Brian Macwhinney macw at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Aug 7 20:57:24 UTC 2025


Sophie,
    This may look like a morphological error, but it is really a semantic error and I would use [* s:r].  Make sure you are looking at section 18.1.2 in the current (online) version of the CHAT manual.

— Brian MacWhinney
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, 
Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU 

> On Aug 7, 2025, at 3:38 PM, Sophie Brook <sophiemeibrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there, 
> 
> Participant is describing a drawn picture of a baby sitting on the floor playing with a car. 
> 
> In a transcription we have:
> 
> *PAR:	an(d) the baby it is [: has] [* ] a truck [: car] [* s:r]. [+ sem] [+ gram] •18119_22729•
> 
> How do we error code on word level? 
> 
> Couldn't find something relevant in CLAN part 1 for when a verb "is" has been used for another main verb "has". 
> 
> Please could you let me know what you think? Thank you. 
> 
> Best, 
> Sophie 
> 
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