Self-interruptions and self-corrections

[Brian MacWhinney]

Chris,

I think the most direct and accurate way to notate this would be:

*CHI:  the turtle took him underwater to the beautiful palace where <the king's wife, I mean> [//] the king's daughter, gave him a box.

-- Brian MacW

On Jul 17, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Chris Dixon <cddixon90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to deal with self-interruptions and corrections. The utterance I need to transcribe is:
> 
> *CHI:  the turtle took him underwater to the beautiful palace where the king's wife, I mean the king's daughter, gave him a box.
> 
> How is this best transcribed? Currently I have it as such:
> 
> *CHI:  	the turtle took him underwater to the beautiful palace where the 
> 	    king's wife +//.
> *CHI: 	I mean the king's daughter gave him a box.
> 
> 
> According to the manual.
> "When an incompletion is not followed by further material from the same speaker, the +... symbol should always be selected. However, when the speaker breaks off an utterance and starts up another, the +//. symbol can be used"
> 
> So I shouldn't use +... because there is further material from the same speaker. The question is whether "I mean the king's daughter gave him a box" counts as breaking off the previous utterance and constitutes a new one in itself.
> 
> Thanks!
> Chris
> 
> 
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