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Spanish Transcription Questions

  • Spanish C-Units

    Aug 22 2016
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  • restating the subject - ELL

    Oct 08 2015
    1

    How should utterances from ELL speakers who reiterate the subject pronoun be transcribed? Examples:  “The boy he fell out of the window” and “The frog he had the jar on his head”.

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  • Coding verb agreement errors

    Oct 08 2015
    1

    Can we use the /* convention for Spanish verb conjugation errors? For example, a child who uses the third person singular as a default might say, "El niño y perro buscaba por todas partes." Could I...

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  • Clitic confusion

    Sep 28 2015
    1

    Do you use + with reflexives or not? There was an example on the clitics help section, "El se para", which suggested that a clitic + should be used... but other examples on other sections suggested...

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  • Linking verbs

    Sep 28 2015
    2

    Do you link verbs to their following preposition? A huge one that always came up was, "ir a". Should it be transcribed as "ir_a"? What about other verbs that typically are followed by a preposition?

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  • Language/code switch

    Sep 28 2015
    1

    Does the language switch to Spanish, English, or Combined only affect the word lists? If a speaker only says 1 or 2 words in English throughout the entire transcript, should the "Combined" language...

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