CHECK - Sampa - errors detected

[Typhanie Prince]

Hello to everyone,

I work as a research engineer on a French project about aphasia and I use CLAN every day.

Some words are transcribed and coded in SAMPA as the manual indicates (example: crab -> crap [: kRap] ) but when I use the CHECK command the program encodes these examples as errors (if there is numbers, tilde).
How to solve this please?

Thank you for your help :)

Typhanie PRINCE

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Typhanie,
Perhaps you are using some old version of the manual. I don’t see any reference in the current CHAT manual at https://talkbank.org/manuals/CHAT.pdf to the word SAMPA. We stopped using SAMPA in about 1997, converting everything instead to IPA UniCode. Perhaps you could tell me where the current manual is suggesting this form.
My next suspicion is that you may be using an old version of CLAN. About two years ago, we removed the requirement that words could not have capital letters inside.
There is also a further discrepancy in the example you provide. The goal of the [: text] replacement format is to provide a standard orthography representation, not to provide the phonology. So, the format should have been kRap [: crab].

— Brian MacWhinney
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU

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[Typhanie Prince]

Dear Pr. MacWhinney,

Thank you for your response.

Indeed, I realized an error in writing my message, it is indeed KRap [: crab], that's what I did.
Thanks to your answer, I managed to find the origin of the problem, I thank you.

Have a great week

Typhanie PRINCE