Table 4.
CMA selection of symbols (#) for free transcription.
| Form | # | Spatial Points | # | Other Notations | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body parts | Location | Body side | |||
| Joint/areas | At the center | 000 | Right/left | F′/F, | |
| Neck | 1 | At center front | 100 | Body participation | |
| Shoulder | 2 | … | … | Bilateral movement | F∗ |
| Elbow | 3 | Physical body posture | Unilateral movement | F | |
| Knee | 4 | Standing up | 1 | Form timing movement | |
| … | … | Sitting | 2 | Simultaneous compound | ..F |
| Head pole | 11 | … | … | ||
| 12 | |||||
| … | |||||
| Arms pole | 21 | Orientation | Sequential compound | F | |
| … | |||||
| (e.g., index fingers) | (232) | ||||
| Legs pole | 31 | Vertical plane | 11 | Height scale | |
| 32 | position | 12 | body/vertical axis | ||
| … | … | ||||
| Trunk | 41 | Sagittal plane | 21 | Higher…….Lower | x5,…,x1 |
| 42 | position | 22 | |||
| … | … | ||||
| Figure | Horizontal plane | 31 | Time-duration | ||
| position | 32 | ||||
| … | |||||
| Drawing and poetry | abbr./words | Direction | Non-recorded duration < 1 s | < | |
| Technical terms | abbr./words/numbers | High/low V axis | h/w | ≥1 s (decimal notation) | 1.00 |
| (e.g., labile head) | (111) | Right/left H axis | r/l | Minutes (u:v) | 1:00 |
| (e.g., convex torso)… | (411)… | Forward/backward S axis | f/k | Determinants and attributes | abbr./words/numbers |
| (e.g., slow) | (2) | ||||
| (e.g., tense) | (4) | ||||
| (e.g., speech fear) | (9) | ||||
| … | |||||
| Oblique directions | rf… | Transcription number | n-K | ||
The readers should read these column by column.