Add syntactic categories/ Use other grammatical codes

[Rowena Garcia]

When using MOR, is it possible to use other syntactic categories aside from the ones used in English? I am analyzing child-directed speech samples in Tagalog, and I will not really try to make concatenation rules. So, I am just adding some entries via a .cut file in the lex folder. However, to make my work more similar to the manually tagged speech samples of children, I wish to use grammatical codes which are not included in the program (e.g., {[scat qm]} for question marker). I do not know where I could add/declare these grammatical codes, so when I use them in the .cut file, and add a %mor tier to a transcription, I get this: 'lex-entry error: bad category specification for entry: (word).' Also, in the .cha file, it is still marked as '?|(word).'

I hope you could help me. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it

[Rowena Garcia]

I just realized that the error notice is coming from something else---from commas in the transcription. Sorry for that. Nevertheless, I still have not yet figured out how to use other grammatical codes.

Thanks again!

[spektor]

The grammatical codes do not need to be declared anywhere other than where they are used, for example in lex folder in some ".cut" file you would have: word {[scat qm]} . MOR relies on POST command to complete tagging process. Creating grammar is a complex process and a small mistake in early stages could cause a lot of problems further down the line. Please, send details of what you are trying to achieve along with a sample of your data and any lexicon you have so far to Brian MacWhinney at ma...@cmu.edu or to me directly and I will try to assist you.

Leonid.

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