| (0.4) | A silence, measured in tenths of a second |
| (.) | A micropause, hearable but too short to measure. |
| >he said< | ‘greater than’ and ‘lesser than’ signs enclose speeded-up talk. Occasionally they are used the other way round for slower talk. |
| Underlining | indicates emphasis; the extent of underlining within individual words locates emphasis and also indicates how heavy it is. |
| ↑ ↓ | Vertical arrows precede marked pitch movement, over and above normal rhythms of speech. They are used for notable changes in pitch beyond those represented by stops, commas and question marks. |
| she wa:nted | Colons show degrees of elongation of the prior sound; the more colons, the more elongation. |
| [ ] | Square brackets mark the start and end of overlapping speech. They are aligned to mark the precise position of overlap as in the example below. |
| °↑I know it,° | ‘degree’ signs enclose hearably quieter speech. |
| .hhh | Inspiration (in-breaths); proportionally as for colons. |
| £yes£ | Smile voice |
| #sad# | Talk between markers is croaky |
| (?) | Unclear talk |
| ? | Rising intonation |