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Task 29. Changing a Wordform spelling
Learning objective
You will learn to make three main types of spelling changes. For Multiple morph Wordforms, you must use Change Transcription. For single morph Wordforms, you may use any type.
- Correct Typo changes single morph Wordforms everywhere in every text, and changes the Wordform inventory.
- Change Transcription allows to choose which text occurrences to change, but leaves the old Wordform in the Wordform inventory.
- Change Baseform also changes LDB Baseform (only available for single morphs with LDB entries.)
Tip: Edit…Undo should reverse one spelling change.
Caution: Do not change spelling in the Analysis Editor because that only changes the Wordform Inventory, but not the text.
Preparation
Select the ¶1s4 segment, click Edit…Insert. In Object to Insert, select Segment and click OK. Type The bears visted hour neigburs lat nite.
Changing the spelling of text not prepared for analysis
1. Change nite to night.
Tip: If the text is not yet prepared for analysis, you may edit the Wordforms directly to change the spelling.
Changing the spelling of a prepared but unanalyzed Wordform: Correct Typo
1. Select the ¶1s5 segment.
2. Click Prepare For Analysis.
3. In the text, double-click visted.
4. In the Wordform Inventory Editor, go to the menu and click Tools…Change Spelling.
Result: Opens the Respell window.
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5. In the New Spelling box, type visited.
6. Select Correct Typo and click OK.
Result: Changes the old Wordform spelling everywhere in every text.
Changing spelling of a prepared but unanalyzed Wordform: Change Transcription
1. In the text, double-click hour.
2. On the menu, click Tools…Change Spelling.
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3. In Respell, go to the New Spelling box and type our.
4. Select Change Transcription and click OK.
6. In Assign New Spelling, select the desired sentences,
click 
,
and click OK.
Caution: Only click 
to
assign all text occurrences to the new Wordform.
7. View the changes in the upper left pane of the Wordform Inventory Editor.
8. Close the Wordform Inventory Editor and view the changed form in the Interlinear Text.
Changing the spelling of an analyzed Wordform with only one morpheme
Analyzing the Wordform initially to simulate the error
1. Double-click the Wordform, lat to analyze it first.
2. Go through the steps of analysis and assigning the analysis.
3. Close the Wordform Inventory Editor.
Changing the spelling
1. In the text, double-click lat (or in the Wordform Inventory Editor, click the misspelled word in the upper left pane).
2. On the menu, click Tools…Change Spelling.
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3. Type last in the New Spelling box.
4. Click Correct Typo.
Result: Changes the old Wordform spelling everywhere in every text.
5. Check the Change Baseform box to change the LexEntry Baseform in the lexicon to match the new spelling, and click OK.
6. View changes in the upper left pane of the Wordform Inventory Editor.
Changing the spelling of an analyzed Wordform with more than one morpheme
Analyzing the Wordform initially to simulate the error
1. Double-click the Wordform, neigburs to analyze it first.
2. Go through the steps of analysis and assigning the analysis.
3. Close the Wordform Inventory Editor.
Tip: You need to reanalyze the morphemes with these changes.
Changing the spelling
1. In the text, double-click neigburs word (or in the Wordform Inventory Editor, click the misspelled word in the upper left pane).
2. On the menu, click Tools…Change Spelling.
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3. Type neighbors in the New Spelling box, and click OK.
Assigning the new spelling
1. In the Assign New Spelling dialog, select each text occurrence
for the new spelling, click ,
and click OK.
Caution: Only click to
assign all text occurrences to the new Wordform.
2. View changes in the upper left pane of the Wordform Inventory Editor and re-do the analysis of the Wordform neighbors.
Tip: You may need to update the frequency count by clicking Tools…Reset Frequency Counts.
Deleting Unattested Wordforms
1. Open the Wordform Inventory Editor.
2. On the menu, click Tools…Delete Unattested Wordform.
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3. Select neigburs and click Delete .
Tip: You can use Shift+Click to select more than one Wordform at a time.
4. Click 
and
on the keyboard, press Ctrl+Y.
Checking Statistics in the Wordform Inventory
1. From the Wordform Inventory Editor menu, click Tools…Statistics.
Result: Opens the Wordform Inventory Statistics window, showing Current wordform, Texts, Morphs, All wordforms, and Punctuation marks.
2. Look at the various statistics, and click .
Editing Wordform Encodings
1. Open the Wordform Inventory Editor.
2. On the menu, click Tools…Edit Wordform Encodings.
3. Change Sort By to American-English IPA
4. Click the EGAi insertion point beside begins and type big®nz.
5. Close the Encodings Editor: Wordforms window.
Editing Morph Encodings
1. Open the Wordform Inventory Editor.
2. On the menu, click Tools…Edit Morph Encodings.
3. Change Sort By to American-English IPA
4. Click the EGAi insertion point beside bear and type bE¨.
5. Close the Encodings Editor: Wordforms window.
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