Using the gem and freq commands on bilingual data to get types and tokens by language for different activities

[Sarah Surrain]

Hello,

I am working with Spanish-English bilingual data from parent-child dyads. In the header, I have specified the languages as
@Languages:    spa, en
and I have used [- eng] precodes for English utterances and @s tags on English words embedded in Spanish utterances.

I would like to use gem markers to segment the transcripts by activity (such as book reading) and then run a freq command to count the number of tokens in Spanish and English used by the parent and child during that activity.

I used this command to retrieve only the book reading activities and create new CHAT files with headers:
gem +sbook +d1 +f *.cha

Then I tried these commands on the output to create an Excel file with the types, tokens, TTR and MATTR for each language:
freq +l +s*@s:eng +d3 +b10 *.cha
freq +l +s*@s:spa +d3 +b10 *.cha

However, I am getting these errors:
Language "eng" is not defined on "@Languages:" header tier.
and
Illegal use of "@s", no alternative language in position 1 defined on @Language: tier.

I can fix this by manually pasting the @Languages line into the header in the new file that I created using the gem command. Is there a way to automatically create CHAT files using the gem command that retain the @Languages line?

(I also tried the gemfreq command (gemfreq +sbook +l +s*@s:eng +d3 +b10 *.cha) but I wasn't able to create an excel worksheet with the types, tokens, etc for each participant. I got the error: The only +d levels allowed are 0–1).

Thank you!

Sarah Surrain

Sarah Surrain, Ed.M.
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University FAS | GSE
https://scholar.harvard.edu/sarahsurrain

[Leonid Spektor]

Sarah,

English language code is three letters as all other language codes are. For English the code is "eng".

Leonid.

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[Sarah Surrain]

Dear Leonid,

My apologies for the typo! The languages header I used was

@Languages:    spa, eng

-Sarah

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[Leonid Spektor]

Sarah,

In this case the problem is that GEM does not copy @Languages: header to its output. Add option +t@ or +t@Languages to GEM command.

Leonid.

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[Sarah Surrain]

Thank you! That fixed my problem.

-Sarah

Sarah,

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