Conventions used in Part1 - Santa Barbara
Units
Intonation Unit
RETURN
Truncated intonation unit
--
word
SPACE
truncated word
_
Speakers
Speaker identity/turn start
:
Speech overlap
[ ]
Transitional Continuity
Final
.
Continuing
,
Appeal
?
Terminal Pitch Direction
Fall
\
Rise
/
Level
-
Accent and Lengthening
Primary accent
^
Secondary accent
'
Booster
!
Lengthening
=
Tone
Fall
\
Rise
/
Fall-rise
\/
Rise-fall
/\
Level
-
Pause
Long
...(N)
Medium
...
Short
..
Latching
(0)
Vocal Noises
Vocal noises
( )
Inhalation
(H)
Exhalation
(Hx)
Glottal stop
%
Laughter
@
Quality
Quality
<Y Y>
Laugh quality
<@ @>
Quotation quality
<Q Q>
Multiple quality features
<Y <Z Z> Y>
Phonetics
Phonetic transcription
(/ /)
Transcriber's Perspective
Researcher's comments
(( ))
Uncertain hearing
<X X>
Indecipherable syllable
X
Specialized notation
Duration
(N)
Intonation unit continued
&
Intonation subunit boundary
|
Embedded intonation unit
<| |>
Reset
False start
< >
Codeswitching
<L2 L2>
Non-transcription Lines
Comment
$
Interlinear gloss
$G
Reserved Symbols
Phonemic/orthographic ,
Morphosyntactic coding
= * # { }
User-definable
" ~ ;