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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Can Mod Lang Rev. 2011 Nov;67(4):10.1353/cml.2011.0025. doi: 10.1353/cml.2011.0025

Transcription Conventions

1. Turn Sequence Left to right and top to bottom order
marks turn sequence
2. Overlap [ ]
3. Hold (short closure/pause) ..
4. Pause, untimed
5. Timed Pause (1.0)
6. Truncated word wor-
7. Laugh @
8. Laugh voice @word
9. Inhale (H)
10. Exhaled release (Hx)
11. Utterance final question ?
12. Question, utterance continues ?,
13. Falling intonation .
14. Emphatic word
15. Switch to first language <L1>
16. Switch to second language <L2>
17. Unintelligible string ((xxx))
18. Uncertain word #word
19. Linked utterances = =

Adapted from Du Bois (2005)