question about w option

[HJ Heather Kim]

Hi,

I am doing an analysis on family mealtime conversations- 

I have searched for 10 longest utterances produced by each child by using maxwd command. And I would like to examine the utterances (or turns) that precede and follow each of the longest target utterances. I tried using the w option, but it didn't work with the maxwd command. Will there be a way for me to pull out those preceding/following utterances?

Thank you in advance,

Heather Kim

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Heather,

     By the way, did you realize that you could double click on the output from MAXWD and that will directly open the segment with each of the relevant longest utterances.  For example, if you command is 

maxwd barry.cha +g2 +t*CHI

The output will be:

From file <barry.cha>

*** File "barry.cha": line 87:     Number of chosen words 10. 

*CHI: this the the car can go go on like this ?

Then you can click on the line with the three stars and it will open up the original and you can look at the lines before and after and cut and paste.  Or you could add a code there and later use KWAL with the +w switch to extract the segments as you need.

We are not really sure exactly what you need in this case.  One possible change to CLAN that Leonid could do would be to make it so that KWAL itself could directly process the lines with *** and then you could use the +w switch directly.  

If we understood a bit more about what you are trying to achieve, that might help. 

--Brian MacWhinney

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[HJ Heather Kim]

Dear Brian,

Thanks for your response. I did happen to discover the double-clicking myself by *accident*, and found the feature very neat. I posted my initial inquiry because I was wondering whether there was any other "shorter-cut" than going back and forth between cha files and output file to be able to get some contextual information. 

In addition to the double clicking option, I think I'll also try out coding + kwal command option you suggested. 

Thank you for your help!

heather kim

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