underscore

[Cathy Eaton]

Hello again,

Thank you for your responses about my student's downloading difficulties. She is now up and running.

I have a new issue to ask about. I am searching large numbers of items in specified categories by using .cut files. My concern is that CLAN can't find items like "out of nowhere" if I don't specify them as "out_of_nowhere" in the .cut file. I have played around with these items and it seems like the answer is no, CLAN won't recognize them if the underscore isn't included in the search. 

So, my next question is where I can find a list of items that use the underscore. There are certain items like "in order to" that I have found to be transcribed both ways ("in order to" and "in_order_to"), in which case I am happy to put both forms in the file if necessary. Is there a comprehensive list of these items you can direct me to so that I don't miss any of these items? The CHAT manual addresses the use of underscore, but doesn't seem to include a list.

Thank you yet again,

Cathy

[Leonid Spektor]

Cathy,

I will let someone else address a complete list of all underscore words. But, if you want to know all underscore words in a dataset that you are working with, then you can run command on all files in that dataset:

freq +s*_* +o3 +u *.cha

Leonid.

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[Brian MacWhinney]

Cathy,

    In the English MOR lexicon, these files have the words with underscores used by MOR;

adj-under.cut

adv-under.cut

conj-under.cut

n-under.cut

prep-under.cut

Interestingly, there is no v-under.cut.  There are also *-hyphen.cut files.  We use hyphens when standard English spelling uses them. 

--Brian MacWhinney

[Cathy Eaton]

Okay, thank you! Both of those methods will be helpful moving forward.

Cathy