Transcribing bookreading

[Lulu]

Dear Brian,

Thanks for your reply! It's great to learn about the postcodes. Is there a 
limit on how long the text can be in the postcodes?

Hope all is well!

Lulu

On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 2:43:03 PM UTC-4, macw wrote:
>
> Dear Lulu,
>    Janet provided excellent guidelines for distinguishing accurately 
> recited text vs. deviations in the recitation.  I think you are also asking 
> about how to contrast the case when the adult is "voicing" a character from 
> those in which the adult is reading directly.  I'm not sure how clear this 
> distinction always is.  Sometimes the adult will change voice and act out 
> something like "talking like the dragon".  In any case, the basic principle 
> here is that you can create as many postcodes as you need to make as many 
> distinctions as you consider important.  It is always easierto merge the 
> numbers for postcodes, rather than trying to make distinctions later on.
>
> Best,
>
> -- Brian MacWhinney
>
> On Mar 13, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Lulu <lulu... at gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi! We have a question about transcribing bookreading activities. I'd like 
> to have a way to notate whenever the adult is reading the text from the 
> book rather than talking spontaneously. I read in the manual that quotation 
> marks (i.e., +"/. and +".) can be used to denote when a character in the 
> book is speaking (p. 67). But how should we mark when the adult is reading 
> the narration text in the book? Thanks so much!
>
> Hope everyone stays safe!
>
> Best,
> Lulu
>
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