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Not using ChildPlus? No need to send this to a file, it is quite short. Can owls crawl? I don't know the answer to that question, but we can see that Adam was wondering about this very thing at this point in his life.

But notice that the following command seems to leave out his question about the owls, instead we get some utterances with "owl":.

How do we get everything about owls including both "owl" and "owls"? Now, armed with that information, look at the morpheme tier to try to fix the command above to get all of the questions with be or an auxiliary. To get started, you might want to look at the adamqswithaux. Fix the command that creates the file adamqswithbeoraux. Now, let's look at that file. I found 47 45 things in it, did you?

It should be 45,not Part 5: Examine Adam's use of inversion versus question type. Look at the adamqswithbeoraux.

This is a very small sample, granted, but let's count anyway. Count the number of the following things you find and tell me what they are :. There are a couple of different ways you can look at this data, some will be more revealing than others. We want to look at the percentages, pretending we have looked at enough data to be confident that it is representative. Each question below asks "what proportion of occurrences of X are also occurrences of Y?

Provide your answers to the questions below, giving me for each one both the ultimate percentage you got and the numbers you divided to get it. Part 5c. Describe what the interesting pattern s seem s to be.

Describe in couple of sentences what the interesting patterns seem to be in the data you analyzed, and any other conclusions that occur to you. CLAN includes a relatively powerful searching tool called combo. I will outline a couple of points here, although you should probably refer to the CLAN manual for more information.

This will look for "what" immediately followed by "my" in any of the nina files, returning something like this:. Individual CMDI files can be accessed starting at root data-cmdi. Functionally, however, CLAN has two parts. The editor also provides a wide range of additional functions, such as audio and video playback, linkage to audio and video, fonts for Roman and non-Roman orthographies, data validation, adding codes to files, and shipping data to other programs.

In addition, we maintain the usual analysis of wh -questions, according to which wh -words move into the specifier of CP. We will assume that in wh-questions, the specifier of CP is occupied by the wh -word. You can finish the thought there: what does this predict about how many null subjects we will find in wh -questions in child speech?

Note down : Write a couple of sentences about what we expect to find when we look at how many null subjects occur in wh -questions as compared to how many we find in statements, in both the case when the verb is finite and in the case when the verb is bare. So, first we need to find the wh -questions.

We want to be sure we get all of them including, e. Do two separate searches. Do the first search on the first 8 transcripts up to and including , and the second search on rest of the transcripts up to When you do these searches, you will get a large result, which you will want to copy into a text file. What we care about here are wh -questions where the wh -word is not the subject, and among those we will count the number of overt and missing subjects.

So, omit from consideration all of those wh -questions a where the wh -word is the subject, b which are direct repetitions of a previous utterance, and c where the classification cannot be determined. Fill in the overt and null subject numbers for each set of files.

In the third column, compute the percentage of included utterances for each range of files that have null subjects divide the number of null subjects by the sum of both overt and missing subjects, and then multiply by Note down : Write a couple of sentences that describe the results in the table, what pattern you see. In the second part of this exercise, we will concentrate on writing up the results in a standard way. An experimental write-up generally consists of five basic sections.

Hand in : Work through each of the following five sections and create a short paper. Hand in the resulting paper. The Background section lays out the theoretical background to the experiment you are conducting. This generally includes a couple of sub-components, one being a basic description of the issue, and another being a review of the known results that bear on the issue. The literature review should be concise: it is important to acknowledge the important work that sets the scene for your own experiment, and to indicate what other experiments have found, but at the same time it is also important to include only those experiments and discussions that have a direct relation to the question you are investigating.

The Background section should also outline the question that your experiment is going to address. In this exercise, the experiment is about the things that were located in the second part of the data collection. Specifically, about the interaction of wh -words and missing subjects. Specifically for this assignment: Your introduction should touch on the following points.

Write full sentences, flesh it out a little bit. The Methodology section addresses your specific experiment, laying out the way in which you propose to answer the question that was set up in the Background section. In this section, you will put in all of the specifics of the experiment. In this case, the experiment is being done on a corpus, so what you would discuss in the Methodology section is what you are looking for within the corpus.

Specifically for this assignment: You should indicate that this study is done by searching transcripts of child productions contained within the CHILDES database. The Subjects section is usually pretty short, and outlines who the participants in your experiment are, along with any relevant characteristics.

It is in general important for your subjects to remain anonymous, although sometimes it is useful to assign codes to individual subjects so that you can refer to them by subject number, or initials. What characteristics are relevant depends a lot on what you are looking at. For example, in an adult L2 study, it would be important to know things like what their first language is, whether they know any other languages apart from their L1 and L2, how long they have been exposed to the L2 in question, and in what circumstances, how early they were exposed to the L2, how central the L2 is in their daily lives, that sort of thing.

In a child corpus study like this one, you would list the children whose transcripts you are using and their ages and MLUs. Apart from that, indicate which dataset you were using Nina and describe the division into early and late files, giving an age and MLU range for the early files and for the late files.

In the Results section, you can report usually in some kind of tabular or summarized form what actually came out of the experiment you conducted. It is often appropriate to characterize the patterns in the data as well in the Results section, although interpretation of what the results actually tell us should be reserved for the Discussion section.