All the Q & A’s are queries that work on the ae_emuDB that comes with the emuR package:

course_data_dir = "./myEMURdata" # change to valid dir path on your system
library(emuR)
create_emuRdemoData(course_data_dir)
db = load_emuDB(file.path(course_data_dir, "emuR_demoData", "ae_emuDB"),
                verbose = F)

Q & A’s

Simple queries

Please place your answers in the R Markdown code blocks or write the answers next to the A:

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items containing the label “n” in the “Phonetic” level?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items that do not contain the label “n” or “p”?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items in the “Word” level?
  • A:
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Sequence queries

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all sequences of items containing the label “E” followed by items containing the label “n” on the “Phonetic” level?
  • A:
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  • Q: Same as the question above but this time we are only interested in the items containing the label “E” in the sequences.
  • A:
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  • Q: Same as the question above but this time we are only interested in the items containing the label “n” in the sequences.
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all sequences of items containing the labels “amongst”, “her” and “friends” on the “Text” attribute of the “Word” level?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items of the “Text” attribute of the “Word” level that preceed the word “to”?
  • A:
# place answer code here

Conjunction operator

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items containing the label “always” in the “Text” attribute definition which also have the label “C” on a parallel attribute definition called “Word”?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items of the attribute definition “Text” of the level “Word” that were also labeled as content words (labeled “C” in the “Word” level) and as accented (labeled “S” in the attribute definition “Accent” of the same level)?
  • A:
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Domination operator

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items containing the label “p” in the “Phoneme” level that occur in strong syllables (i.e., dominated by/linked to items of the level “Syllable” that contain the label “S”)?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all syllable items that have links to Phoneme items that are not labeled “k” or “p” or “t”?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all items on the “Phonetic” level that are part of a strong syllable (labeled “S”) and belong to the words “amongst” or “beautiful”?
  • A:
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  • Q: The same as the question above but this time we want the “Text” items.
  • A:
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Position

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all word-initial syllables?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all word-final syllables?
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all word-medial syllables?
  • A:
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Count

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all words that contain four syllables?
  • A:
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Combining everything

  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all phonemes which do not occur in the last syllable of the word?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all words containing syllables which contain four phonemes?
  • A:
# place answer code here
  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all “S” syllables, containing an “s” phoneme and preceding an “S” syllable?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve all “H” phonetic segments followed by an arbitrary segment and then by either “I” or “U”?
  • A:
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  • Q: What is the query to retrieve “W” (weak) syllables in word-final position occurring in three-syllable words?
  • A:
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