ONT Re: Sequential Interactions Generating Hypotheses
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SIGH. Note 9
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Reading the Family Interaction Dataset as a Two-Level Formal Language
Let's now develop a sense of how the family interaction dataset
might look from the perspective of a 2-level formal language.
For example, consider the following fragment of the data:
| 2 31213 5
| 2 11233 8
| 2 34213 10
| 2 33213 18
| 2 10133 19
| 2 14233 22
| 2 30113 24
| 2 99999 29
| 2 31113 40
| 2 11233 43
| 2 31212 46
| 2 11232 51
| 2 31213 54
| 2 11232 56
| 2 99999 61
| 2 11233 68
| 2 36213 70
| 2 33213 73
| 2 16232 74
| 2 33213 77
| 2 16232 78
| 2 31312 82
| 2 99999 91
| 2 11233 94
| 2 31213 96
| 2 99999 101
Let's focus on the categorical variables in the middle columns,
ignoring the session type and the elapsed time of each episode,
using the time variable simply as a marker of sequential order,
and reading the "pause in activity" code as a clause indicator.
Just from the sample of this first hundred seconds we have
the following information about the 2-level formal language
L = <L_1, L_2> that depicts the interaction between C and P.
L_1, the "phrase-book", or "lexicon", contains the following strings:
| 10133 = Child complies with Mother with neutral affect.
| 11232 = Child talks to Mother with positive affect.
| 11233 = Child talks to Mother with neutral affect.
| 14233 = Child ambiguously commands Mother with neutral affect.
| 16232 = Child vocalizes to Mother with positive affect.
| 30113 = Mother complies with Child with neutral affect.
| 31113 = Mother positively verbalizes to Child with neutral affect.
| 31212 = Mother talks to Child with positive affect.
| 31213 = Mother talks to Child with neutral affect.
| 31312 = Mother negatively verbalizes to Child with positive affect.
| 33213 = Mother commands Child with neutral affect.
| 34213 = Mother ambiguously commands Child with neutral affect.
| 36213 = Mother vocalizes to Child with neutral affect.
| 99999 = Pause in activity.
L_2, the "clause-book", or "liturgy", contains the following strands:
| <11233, 31213, 99999>
|
| <11233, 36213, 33213, 16232, 33213, 16232, 31312, 99999>
|
| <31113, 11233, 31212, 11232, 31213, 11232, 99999>
|
| <31213, 11233, 34213, 33213, 10133, 14233, 30113, 99999>
Jon Awbrey
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