This can be done by saving the invariant features associated with the speakers in a separate file called, e.g. , speakers . Goldsearch recognizes a new speaker or contributor in a corpus by looking for lines that start with an ID marker followed by a colon. Social and stylistic variables may be specified for each contributor in a corpus, and a coding for these factors is automatically related to the tokens of the linguistic variable. User provides formatted corpus and types in a search string. This allows searches for specific or progressively more general patterns.
Hierarchic structure searches Simple or nested feature search.
Independent variable automated searches Goldsearch is capable of filling in token code values for any independent variables that can be defined by regular expressions. The token code which identifies each variant of the dependent variable. This will appear in column one of the Goldvarb token file . The token code which identifies each variant of each independent variable. These will appear beginning in column 2 of the Goldvarb token file .