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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2005 Jun;19(4):335–359. doi: 10.1080/02699200500085426

Table V.

Rank-ordered disagreement findings for transcription completed using the two audio systems. Rank ordering is based on the mean agreement for both transcribers for narrow transcription.

Rank Ordered Agreement by Target Consonant Sounda

Rank Target
Sound
Mean of Both
Transcribers
Transcriber 1 (eight samples)
Transcriber 2 (four samples)
Broad Narrow n Broad Narrow n Broad Narrow
1 /ʤ/ 100.0 100.0 3 100.0 100.0 2 100.0 100.0
2 /w/ 100.0 98.7 113 100.0 97.3 48 100.0 100.0
3 /h/ 99.3 98.6 136 98.5 97.1 72 100.0 100.0
4 /b/ 98.9 96.6 92 97.8 96.7 56 100.0 96.4
5 /j/ 96.6 94.0 67 95.5 92.5 44 97.7 95.5
6 /n/ 97.6 93.4 285 96.5 91.6 147 98.6 95.2
7 /d/ 94.2 93.3 118 95.8 94.1 53 92.5 92.5
8 /m/ 95.6 92.1 167 93.4 89.8 87 97.7 94.3
9 /s/ 94.6 89.7 169 95.3 90.5 98 93.9 88.8
10 /ʧ/ 88.8 88.8 26 84.6 84.6 14 92.9 92.9
11 /k/ 90.2 87.5 125 92.0 88.0 69 88.4 87.0
12 /p/ 96.7 87.4 114 96.5 87.7 62 96.8 87.1
13 /g/ 90.3 87.0 47 87.2 87.2 15 93.3 86.7
14 /v/ 82.8 82.8 14 92.9 92.9 11 72.7 72.7
15 /t/ 91.4 79.6 223 89.2 78.9 157 93.6 80.3
16 /f/ 78.6 78.6 21 90.5 90.5 9 66.7 66.7
17 /r/ 87.5 76.7 127 85.0 69.3 69 89.9 84.1
18 /ŋ/ 79.3 75.7 14 78.6 71.4 10 80.0 80.0
19 /z/ 91.4 74.3 98 89.8 69.4 43 93.0 79.1
20 /θ/ 78.6 71.5 7 57.1 42.9 5 100.0 100.0
21 /ɚ/ 75.9 69.2 20 60.0 55.0 12 91.7 83.3
22 /l/ 82.3 67.2 64 73.4 50.0 90 91.1 84.4
23 /ð/ 66.7 66.7 41 63.4 63.4 10 70.0 70.0
24 /ʃ/ 66.7 66.7 3 33.3 33.3 1 100.0 100.0
25 /ɚ/ 83.4 61.2 11 66.7 55.6 3 100.0 66.7
M 88.3 83.1 84.2 84.5 78.8 47.5 92.0 87.3
SD 9.9 11.7 74.4 16.7 19.0 44.1 9.7 10.6

Rank Ordered Agreement by Target Manner Feature

Rank Target
Class
Mean of Both
Transcribers
Transcriber 1
(eight samples)
Transcriber 2
(four samples)
Broad Narrow n Broad Narrow n Broad Narrow

1 glide 98.6 96.7 180 98.3 95.6 92 98.9 97.8
2 nasal 96.2 92.3 466 94.8 90.3 244 97.5 94.3
3 affricate 90.0 90.0 29 86.2 86.2 16 93.8 93.8
4 stop 93.4 86.8 719 92.9 87.2 412 93.9 86.4
5 fricative 92.0 86.7 489 91.2 84.9 249 92.8 88.4
6 liquid 85.9 73.6 191 81.2 62.8 159 90.6 84.3
M 92.7 87.7 345.7 90.8 84.5 195.3 94.6 90.8
SD 4.5 7.8 255.4 6.2 11.3 138.8 3.1 5.2
a

Excluding the infrequent /ʒ/ but including the two rhotic vowels /ɝ/ and /ɚ/.