PHPCLANCHILDES with regular expressions

4 matches in 4 utterances

3.78 per 1,000 words of the child (CHI), in 1 of 1 transcripts (313 utterances, 1,059 words searched).

  1. why ? CHI · eng_british_Manchester_I/aran29a.cha, line 86 · Aran 2;09
  2. why do you do so much writing ? CHI · eng_british_Manchester_I/aran29a.cha, line 545 · Aran 2;09
  3. why ? CHI · eng_british_Manchester_I/aran29a.cha, line 612 · Aran 2;09
  4. why ? CHI · eng_british_Manchester_I/aran29a.cha, line 1388 · Aran 2;09
  1. INVno .
    INVI think I'll keep mine on .
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    INVbecause I've got to go outside later ,, haven't I ?
    MOToh those are warm ,, aren't they ?
  2. CHIbig straw hat .
    MOTcome on .
    CHI*CHI: why do you do so much writing ?
    INVbecause you say so much .
    CHIwrite .
  3. MOToh how kind .
    MOTit's not standing up very well this postbox ,, is it ?
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    MOTwell it's a bit wobbly ,, isn't it ?
    MOTit's a bit narrow really ,, isn't it ?
  4. CHIyeah .
    MOTwell bicycles don't have engines .
    CHI*CHI: why ?
    MOTwell they wouldn't be bicycles if they had engines ,, would they ?
    MOTif they've got engines it'd be a motorbike ,, wouldn't it ?

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. Aran eng_british_Manchester_I3.78
All transcripts as a table
TranscriptChildAgeWordsUtterances matchedMatchesPer 1,000 words
eng_british_Manchester_I/aran29a.chaAran 2;9.021,059443.78

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.

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