CLAN Check - Troubleshooting

Common errors you might get when you run CLAN check (Esc+L).

Complaint: Utterance delimiter expected

CLAN places the cursor on the line in question.

Solution: Place a period before the timestamp bullet.

Complaint: Utterance delimiter must be at the end of the utterance

Solution: Remove excess periods. This usually happens on a CHN tier. It should have one period on the last line of the tier. You can remove any periods before the last tier.

Complaint: Duplicate code tiers per one main tier are NOT allowed

CLAN highlights the duplicate tier.

Solution: change one %com to %xcom

Add an x between the "%" and the "c"

Complaint: Use TAB character instead of space character after Tier name

On every line, between the colon and the beginning of the content should be a TAB. If it's just a space, CLAN will highlight it and you can erase the space and add a TAB. Weird formatting means they'll look the same to the naked eye.

Complaint: Upper case letters are not allowed inside a word.

If there are upper case letters within an annotated word, CLAN check will fail.

Make the annotated word one word with only one capital letter.

Same goes for punctuation within words. CLAN won't allow periods or apostrophes within annotated words.

Complaint: Timestamp Issues

If you get timestamp errors in CLAN, flag the issue to lab staff either through an Asana task, an email, or in person.