Using %spe for written corpora

[Aida Cardoso]

Thank you very much

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you mean start (*) as a literal and not wild card, then write it as \*.
> I assume you already know that %spe is not in the depfile either. You can
> call it %xspe, then it will be ignored.
>
> Technically, utterance is defined as ending with utterance delimiter. I
> assume by full stop you mean something like period (.). There is no way to
> get around that rule. If you think that the full stop in the middle means
> that utterance will continue on the next utterance, then you might
> use Self-Interruption symbol. Look in CHAT manual at
> https://talkbank.org/manuals/CHAT.pdf for chapter 9.11 Special Utterance
> Terminators.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Feb 20, 2025, at 12:33, Aida Cardoso <aidacard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using *TEX and %spe to transcribe a written corpus of children's
> narratives, but I am having trouble using the asterisk in the %spe line to
> signal extraneous punctuation. It occurs as an error since this notation is
> not specified in the depfile. It also seems that it does not work even if I
> try to add it to the depfile (possibly because the asterisk stands for any
> sequence or word). Additionally, children sometimes use a full stop in the
> middle of an utterance, which is also an error according to the CHAT
> guidelines. How can I account for these specificities of texts written by
> young children?
> Thank you very much for any suggestion or solution to this issue.
>
> Best regards,
> Aida Cardoso
>
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