dist headers

[brielle.stark]

Hi there. When you run 'dist', for example:

dist @ +sCinderella +sstepmother +d +g +f +u +t*PAR 

it outputs, for example:

cinderella             373        1     4369        11.7105

stepmother              70       25     4272        60.6714

 

but without headers, so I'm unclear as to what each column pertains to. I consulted the CLAN documentation but couldn't find any header information. Many thanks.

[Leonid Spektor]

Run DIST without +d option. DIST is not designed to create Excel output. The +d option removes headers to create just data output.

Leonid.

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[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Brielle,

    I added the following information to the CLAN Manual section on DIST

--Brian MacWhinney

   You can also use DIST to search for distances between words in the main line.  For example, when looking for the word frog in CHILDES/Frogs/WolfHemp/08/01w8.cha, you would use this command:

dist +sfrog +g 01w8.cha

and you would get this result:

From file <01w8.cha>

There were 59 turns.

                 Occurrence   First    Last        Average

Word                  Count   Occurs   Occurs      Distance

-----------------------------------------------------------

frog                     8       30       51         2.6250

 

Note that the information about where the word first occurs, last occurs, and the distance between occurrences is given in terms of turns, not line numbers.