Speaker specific utterance transcription reformatted for CHAT’s morphosyntactic analysis
entry ::= value+ punctuation value ::= disfluency | word | letter | non_word_sound | untranscribed disfluency ::= "#" word ::= english_word | foreign_word | idiosyncratic_word english_word ::= <Any English word> foreign_word ::= <Any non-English word followed immediately by "@f"> idiosyncratic_word ::= <Any word unique to child followed immediately by "@"> letter ::= <Any Latin letter followed immediately by "@l"> non_word_sound ::= "&zzz" untranscribed ::= "&xxx" punctuation ::= "." | "?" | "!" | "+..."
Any canonically spelled series of words or proper nouns, with standard sentence-final punctuation, commas, and the following CHAT-specific markup:
Markup | Meaning | Example |
---|---|---|
# | Disfluency | bonjour@f |
@f | Foreign word | bonjour@f |
@l | Letter | a@l |
@ | Idiosyncratic word | goro@ (goro is child’s word for hedgehog) |
& | Non-Word Sound | &um |
&xxx | Untranscribed speech | Go wash up directed to sibling |
+... | Unfinished sentence | I just want to +... (child trailed off) |
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CHAT is dependent upon the Utts Column for its base content. To convert the transcribed entry in the Utts Column, the following changes are made:
Utts Symbol | CHAT Symbol | Meaning |
---|---|---|
### | &xxx | Unintelligible speech |
-- (mid-sentence) | # | Disfluency or repetition marker |
-- (sentence-final) | +... | Speaker did not finish sentence |