Circumlocution instances

[Aditya Upadhyaya]

Dear chi bolts,

I want to extract all the instances of circumlocution in the aphasia protocol  discourse. What is the command to do that using CLAN?

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,

Aditya Upadhyaya

[Davida Fromm]

Dear Aditya,

This would first require some type of word-level or utterance-level coding that meets your definition of circumlocution. Many of the transcripts have the utterance-level post-code [+ cir] to flag instances of circumlocution but those have not been subjected to any kind of strict reliability evaluations, and not all of the transcripts have those utterance level post-codes. 

The command you would use to find utterances with that post-code for the Participant is:

freq +s"<+ cir>" +t*par *.cha

The information about post-codes in the CHAT manual is at the bottom of page 114: https://talkbank.org/manuals/CHAT.pdf

Feel free to email me privately at fr...@andrew.cmu.edu if you have more questions about this.

Best,

Davida

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[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Aditya,
I used BBEdit to look for the code [+ circ] in the English AphasiaBank corpora. It located only 14 instances. Coding of circumlocutions depends on human decisions and there could be a lot more than that. To find these using CLAN, the command would be
freq +s"<+ circ>" *.cha +re +u +t*
or
freq +s"<+ circ>" *.cha +re +u +t*

—Brian MacWhinney

[Aditya Upadhyaya]

Thank you very much Davida and Brian. I am gonna try using the commands and see if I can extract the appropriate instances for my ongoing study and will get back to you.
I wish you both a good weekend.
Kind regards
Aditya

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> On 11. May 2023, at 15:57, Brian Macwhinney <ma...@cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Aditya,