PHPCLANCHILDES with regular expressions

4 matches in 4 utterances

4.11 per 1,000 words of everyone but CHI, in 1 of 1 transcripts (251 utterances, 974 words searched).

  1. why not ? MOT · eng_british_Manchester_I/carl34a.cha, line 787 · Carl 2;08
  2. well put [//] why don't you put two white ones on ? MOT · eng_british_Manchester_I/carl34a.cha, line 811 · Carl 2;08
  3. why not ? MOT · eng_british_Manchester_I/carl34a.cha, line 1139 · Carl 2;08
  4. why can't they go back ? MOT · eng_british_Manchester_I/carl34a.cha, line 1141 · Carl 2;08
  1. CHIoh there's another one .
    CHIand <they can't put on> [//] they can't put it on there .
    MOT*MOT: why not ?
    CHIbecause +...
    CHIno .
  2. CHIlook .
    CHIit's not got another white one .
    MOT*MOT: well put [//] why don't you put two white ones on ?
    CHIno .
    MOTno .
  3. CHIyeah .
    CHIthey can't go backwards .
    MOT*MOT: why not ?
    MOTwhy can't they go back ?
    CHIand they can't go back .
  4. CHIthey can't go backwards .
    MOTwhy not ?
    MOT*MOT: why can't they go back ?
    CHIand they can't go back .
    MOToh the doors are shut , aren't they ?

Matches by age

One dot per transcript: matches per 1,000 words of everyone but 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. Carl eng_british_Manchester_I4.11
All transcripts as a table
TranscriptChildAgeWordsUtterances matchedMatchesPer 1,000 words
eng_british_Manchester_I/carl34a.chaCarl 2;8.15974444.11

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%