ID headers

[Ingrid Willenberg]

Dear Leonid and Brian

I have to reformat the headers in my files to enable me to generate output to excel.

The current headers look like this:

1     @Begin

2     @Languages:        eng

3     @Participants:      CHI* PAT Target_Child, OBS observer_Ana_Maria_Pinter

After adding information to the ID header tier in CLAN, it adds two additional ID headers. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

1     @Begin

2     @Languages:        eng

3     @Participants:      CHI* PAT Target_Child, OBS , CHO Child , TO Other

4     @ID:         eng|Mages|CHI*||female|TD|WC|Target_Child||020304s|

5     @ID:         eng|change_corpus_later|OBS||||||||

Thanks in advance 

Kind regards,

 

Ingrid

Dr Ingrid A. Willenberg

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Ingrid,

    I can't quite follow what happened in this case.  However, what may be happening is that, when you type escape-L to run CHECK on the file, it will automatically insert @ID lines if they are not already there.  It does this based on information in the @Participants line.  Is it possible that this is what happened.  If so, isn't this really helpful?  You do need to have @ID lines.  

    Alternatively you may be describing a situation in which you ended up with too many @ID lines, but I can't figure that out from what you give here.

--Brian MacWhinney

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[Leonid Spektor]

Ingrid,

If you have been adding ID tiers by hand, then may I suggest that you use the "Tiers->ID headers" menu to change or add new speaker information. This function will change both @Participants: and @ID: tiers and will make sure that all data will pass CHECK.

I am not sure how you could have gotten from "the current headers look" to the "After adding information to the ID header" look as you show in your email. There is no automatic way in any of our programs that I know can do that. For example, the OBS speaker information in @Participants: tier is very different between before and after example.

If you could describe steps you have taken to make the change and even better email to me directly the before file, so that I can try to replicate what happened, then it would help a lot to figure out what could have happened.

Leonid.