Transcribing the word "Wait" at the beginning of an utterance.
Published at: 2015-09-28
I am working with adolescent language transcription. The adolescents are giving each other directions. I have the following:
C Yeah two by two blue brick. {yeah is an acknowledgment of a previous statement, not a yes/no response to a question, so is part of the same utterance}At this point C discovers an error in building. Should the transcription be:
C Wait not brick.
Or
C Wait.
C Not brick.
It seems to me that "Wait" possesses the you understood subject, so it is a separate utterance.
On the other hand, would such an interjection be treated like the word Okay at the beginning of the utterance (as in file SI_06_EXPO.SLT: Okay so football...).
Comments
Salt Support
Posted on 28/09/2015 16:42:39
C Wait.
C Not brick.
(From reading the utterances) This seems to capture the intention of the proposition most accurately.
C Wait. C Not brick. (From reading the utterances) This seems to capture the intention of the proposition most accurately.