CHECK

CLAN Quiz 1-2



1. (1)Verify the syntactic accuracy of the (2)kid26.cha file.

2. (1)Verify the syntactic accuracy of the (2)baby6.cha file and include a (3)switch to check that words on the main line do not contain numbers.

3. Enter the comand to get a listing of the various errors the CHECK program searches for and their corresponding numbers.

4. Since she is new to CHAT transcription, Chantal has made consistent repeated divergences from the standard CHAT form. Enter the (1)CHECK command to (2)suppress repeated warnings of the same error type for (3)files debbie01.cha to debbie10.cha.

5. Mai-Gee would like to (2)keep a record of her (1)CHECK results to document which of her (3)files from naomi01.cha to naomi92.cha are ready for analysis.

6. Your research assistant has transcribed hundreds of files and has used the rising intonation symbol -? as an utterance terminator, at which the CHECK program will complain because it is not one of the basic utterance terminators. (1)CHECK (2)transcripts sarah001.cha to sarah139.cha and include a (3)switch to prevent the CHECK program from complaining that it cannot find an utterance delimiter on the main lines.

7. Sandra and Nathalie would like to run a CHECK command on all the files in their "data" folder. What command should they use to run the CHECK program simultaneously on all the transcripts in the "data" folder?

8. (1)Verify the syntactic accuracy of the (2)debbie01.cha transcript and use a (3)switch to repress warnings to only one of each type of error.

9. What is the command to get a listing of all the options available with the CHECK program?

10. Walter would like to (1)CHECK (2)transcritps kid13.cha to kid30.cha to ensure that a terminator is included on every speaker tier. What (3)option should he use to limit the CHECK program to locate errors of only this type?

11. By default, the CHECK program looks for a supplementary depfile labelled 00depadd.cut. (1)CHECK the (2)file sarw211.cha and use the (3)"suppdep.cut" file as the supplementary depfile instead of the default file.