Tools for Analyzing Talk Part 2: The CLAN Program August 24, 2021 Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University https://doi.org/10.21415/T5G10R When citing the use of TalkBank facilities, please use this reference to the last printed version of the CHILDES manual: MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk. 3rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates This allows us to systematically track usage of the programs and data through scholar.google.com. Part 2: CLAN 2 1 Getting Started ............................................................................................................ 8 1.1 Why you want to learn CLAN ....................................................................................... 8 1.2 Learning CLAN .................................................................................................................. 8 1.3 Installing CLAN – Mac OS X ........................................................................................... 9 1.4 Installing CLAN – Windows .......................................................................................... 9 2 Using the Web ............................................................................................................ 10 2.1 Community Resources ................................................................................................ 10 2.2 Downloading Materials .............................................................................................. 10 2.3 Using the Browsable Database ................................................................................ 10 2.4 Downloading Transcripts and Media .................................................................... 11 3 Tutorial ........................................................................................................................ 12 3.1 The Commands Window ............................................................................................ 12 3.1.1 Setting the Working Directory .......................................................................................... 12 3.1.2 The Recall Button ................................................................................................................... 13 3.1.3 The Progs Menu ...................................................................................................................... 13 3.1.4 The FILE IN Button ................................................................................................................ 13 3.1.5 The TIERS Button ................................................................................................................... 13 3.2 Typing Command Lines .............................................................................................. 14 3.2.1 The Asterisk Wildcard.......................................................................................................... 15 3.2.2 Output Files .............................................................................................................................. 15 3.2.3 Redirection ............................................................................................................................... 15 3.3 Sample Runs ................................................................................................................... 16 3.3.1 Sample KWAL Run ................................................................................................................. 16 3.3.2 Sample FREQ Run .................................................................................................................. 16 3.3.3 Sample MLU Run .................................................................................................................... 17 3.3.4 Sample COMBO Run .............................................................................................................. 18 3.3.5 Sample GEM and GEMFREQ Runs ................................................................................... 18 3.4 Advanced Commands .................................................................................................. 19 3.5 Exercises .......................................................................................................................... 22 3.5.1 MLU50 Analysis ...................................................................................................................... 23 3.5.2 MLU5 Analysis ......................................................................................................................... 25 3.5.3 MLT Analysis ............................................................................................................................ 25 3.5.4 TTR Analysis ............................................................................................................................ 26 3.5.5 Generating Language Profiles ........................................................................................... 26 3.6 Further Exercises .......................................................................................................... 28 4 The Editor .................................................................................................................... 30 4.1 Screencasts ..................................................................................................................... 30 4.2 Text Mode vs. CHAT Mode ......................................................................................... 30 4.3 File, Edit, Format, and Font Menus ......................................................................... 31 4.4 Mode Menu ...................................................................................................................... 31 4.5 Default Window Positioning, Size, and Font Control ....................................... 31 4.6 CA Styles ........................................................................................................................... 32 4.7 Setting Special Colors .................................................................................................. 32 4.8 Searching ......................................................................................................................... 32 4.9 Hiding Tiers .................................................................. 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Bookmark not defined. 4.10 Send to Sound Analyzer ......................................................................................... 33 4.11 Tiers Menu Items ..................................................................................................... 33 4.12 Running CHECK Inside the Editor ...................................................................... 33 Part 2: CLAN 3 4.13 Preferences and Options ....................................................................................... 34 4.14 Coder Mode ................................................................................................................ 34 4.14.1 Entering Codes ................................................................................................................... 35 4.14.2 Setting Up Your Codes File ............................................................................................ 36 5 Media Linkage ........................................................................................................... 38 5.1 Media Formats ............................................................................................................... 38 5.2 Sonic Mode ...................................................................................................................... 39 5.3 Transcriber Mode ......................................................................................................... 40 5.3.1 Linking to an already existing transcript ..................................................................... 40 5.3.2 To create a new transcript ................................................................................................. 41 5.3.3 Sparse Annotation ................................................................................................................. 42 5.4 Video Linking ................................................................................................................. 42 5.5 Walker Controller ........................................................................................................ 43 5.6 Playback Control ........................................................................................................... 44 5.7 Multiple Video Playback ............................................................................................ 44 5.8 Manual Editing ............................................................................................................... 45 5.9 Video Skipping ............................................................................................................... 45 5.10 Audio Anonymization ............................................................................................. 46 6 Other Features .......................................................................................................... 47 6.1 Supplementary Commands ....................................................................................... 47 6.2 Online Help ..................................................................................................................... 47 6.3 Help for the +sm and +sg switches ........................................................................