PHPCLANCHILDES with regular expressions

4 matches in 4 utterances

4.56 per 1,000 words of the child (CHI), in 1 of 1 transcripts (254 utterances, 878 words searched).

  1. why ? CHI · eng_USA_Brown/sarah137.cha, line 143 · Sarah 5;00
  2. why ? CHI · eng_USA_Brown/sarah137.cha, line 204 · Sarah 5;00
  3. why ? CHI · eng_USA_Brown/sarah137.cha, line 289 · Sarah 5;00
  4. why ? CHI · eng_USA_Brown/sarah137.cha, line 650 · Sarah 5;00
  1. MOTno .
    GAIno .
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    MOT(be)cause you'll make this machine go cuckoo .
    MOTand it has its own problems .
  2. CHIyeah .
    MOTno .
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    MOTit's only for big people .
    CHIoh .
  3. CHIyou say # sometimes it does # (a)n(d) sometimes it doesn't .
    GAIyeah .
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    GAII have no idea .
    CHIhow_come the man gave you a broken machine ?
  4. CHIit won't write .
    GAIit's only for paper .
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    GAIbecause that's what pens are for .
    MOTeverything is why .

Matches by age

One dot per transcript: matches per 1,000 words of the child (CHI). Dots of the same child are joined.

Matches by child

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

  1. Sarah eng_USA_Brown4.56
All transcripts as a table
TranscriptChildAgeWordsUtterances matchedMatchesPer 1,000 words
eng_USA_Brown/sarah137.chaSarah 5;0.25878444.56

What the pattern matched

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

  1. why4 · 100.0%