counting words

[Zehava Weizman]

Phillis,

To  limit the analysis to certain number of words spoken by the child
for example,
the command is:

freq +t*CHI +z100w filename.cha	=> analyze the first 100 words only
freq +t*CHI +z200w filename.cha	=> analyze the first 200 words only
freq +t*CHI +z400w filename.cha	=> analyze the first 400 words only

=> it generates an alphabetical list of the first 100 words used by
the target child along with the frequency with which these words
occur in the transcript (filename.cha).

Hope this is helpful.

Zehava Weizman





>From: SCHNEIDER Phyllis <Phyllis.Schneider at ualberta.ca>
>To: "'info-childes at mail.talkbank.org'" <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
>Subject: counting words
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:46:34 -0600
>
>
>Since the issue of counting words has come up:  Is there any way to limit
>analyses to a certain number of words?  Thomas Klee in an article on sample
>analyses recommended calculating type-token ratio based on word limits
>rather than utterance limits -- 100, 200, or 400 word samples.  I can't see
>any way to do this with CLAN other than counting the words by hand.
>
>Thanks--
>Phyllis Schneider
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