List a concise set of environmental conditions
entry ::= [code]* code ::= <Keys can be productively generated. See table below for details>
As a result of collective experience gained from several years of transcribing, the values of the Key vary slightly depending on the type of the visit being transcribed and the transcription guidelines being used. The most current set of key values are as follows:
| Value | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| *[1-9]* | Sibling directed speech | Mother or child speaks to the child’s one other sibling: M* or * Mother or child speaks to the sibling identified as SIB1 in the cast: M*1 or *1 Mother or child speaks to siblings SIB1 and SIB2 as identified in the cast: M*12 or *12 |
| a | Child responds to normally untranscribed speech | Mother is talking on the phone and child responds directly to something mother says to the person on the phone |
| d | Child talking to pet | Child says “Tuvok, come!” where Tuvok is the family dog |
| e | Child talking to experimenter | Child says “Tuvok, run!” where Tuvok is the experimenter |
| F | Father speech if father is also a PCG | Father says anything and is a PCG. This can also be used as a suffix for all other keys unless otherwise stated. |
| f | Child or mother talking to father | Child or mother says “Dad, run!”. Cannot be prefixed with F. |
| i | PCG talking to self | Mother says “Note to self...” |
| l | Non-English words used in an otherwise English sentence | Child says “I was watching Tuvok when el encantador did some magic.” |
| M | Mother speech | Mother says anything and is a PCG. This can also be used as a suffix for all other keys unless otherwise stated. Literacy transcripts only |
| m | Child speaking to mother | Child says “Mom, run!”. Cannot be prefixed with M. |
| o | PCG talking to other adult | Mother is talking to aunt |
| p | Spontaneous praying | Child or PCG starts saying a non-canonical prayer (“Bless Mom and Dad and help Tuvok get home”, not “Our Father, who art in heaven...”) |
| r | Reading | Child or PCG is reading “Hop on Pop” |
| t | Child talking on phone | Child is talking on real or toy phone |
| v | Spontaneous singing | Child or PCG starts singing non-canonical song (“Work, you old goat” over and over, not “Row, row, row your boat”) |
| x | Non-transcribed speech overheard in the preceding five minutes | Aunt says something to mother at some point in the preceding five minutes |
| xc | Non-PCG speech directed toward child in the preceding five minutes | Aunt says something to child at some point in the preceding five minutes |
Note
You will likely see two other key values that have since been deprecated. The first is @, which was the original code for F. Both have identical interpretations and usage.
The other is b, which was meant to indicate when both parent and child speech began simultaneously. To simplify programmatic analysis and validation of transcripts and because of the highly subjective nature of the conditions in which the key was appropriate, b was removed as of revision 1.4 of the transcription guidelines. With b gone, utterances that could be construed as simultaneous are given in the following canonical order: child, mother, father, experimenter. Each speaker involved is then afforded one line of the transcript.
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