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Scope One transcript: eng_USA_Brown/sarah002.cha change

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4 matches in 3 utterances

3.14 per 1,000 words of everyone but CHI, in 1 of 1 transcripts (621 utterances, 1,273 words searched).

Concordance Utterances Distribution Matched forms

you have to be a good girl if you're not a good girl you can't go see the baby you'll have … MOT · eng_USA_Brown/sarah002.cha, line 48
you have to be a good girl if you're not a good girl you can't go see the baby you'll have to go to bed . MOT · eng_USA_Brown/sarah002.cha, line 48
very good . GLO · eng_USA_Brown/sarah002.cha, line 70
she's good # she's not bad . MOT · eng_USA_Brown/sarah002.cha, line 201

Matches per 1,000 words, all transcripts of each child together, highest first.

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Transcript	Child	Age	Words	Utterances matched	Matches	Per 1,000 words
eng_USA_Brown/sarah002.cha	Sarah		1,273	3	4	3.14

1 different forms (lowercased). Useful to see what a pattern really catches: unexpected forms here usually mean the pattern is too broad.