"Uh oh" coding

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Brie,
    Over a year ago, in order to better support fluency coding, we introduced a distinction between the use of the ampersand to mark non-words and its use to mark filler words.  For filler words, we added the hyphen mark as in &-uh and &-um.  It is clear that &-uh is always a filler.  However, the sound "oh" is often what we would call a "co" or communicator, as in "Oh, I didn't realize that."   If it is a real word communicator, then it is just oh.  If it is a filler, which is rather rare, then it is &-oh.  We still use the basic & mark as in &gok for things that are just non-words.  And there are a two more uses of the ampersand, including &=text as in &=laughs for laughing and &* for interposed words (section 9.10.2 of the manual).

-- Brian MacWhinney


> On Mar 24, 2020, at 11:21 AM, brielle.stark <brielle.stark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We encounter a ton of "uh oh" in our transcripts.... is it most correct to code these as:
> 
> &uh &oh
> 
> vs. 
> 
> uhoh at i
> 
> thank you!
> 
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