Dear Amber and Leonid,
I read Leoniod’s message a bit too quickly. About two years ago, we removed the use of <quoted material> [“] from CHAT in order to better integrate quotation marking with MOR and the other programs. Currently, there are these three ways of marking quotes.
1. +” this is used when you want to quote whole utterance, as in book reading. In this case, MOR, FREQ and other programs treat the material as a normal full utterance.
2. “quoted text” : This method is used for shorter stretches that are not single words, but not whole utterances. The quote characters here are inserted using F2+’ and F2+”. The material inside the quote markers is treated as regulard words.
3. word@q: This method is used for metalinguistic citation or quotation of a single words. Such words are then counted separately by FREQ and are tagged as “meta” in MOR.
— Brian MacWhinney