transcription query

[Judi Fenson]

Dear Sharon,

To count an interrupted utterance as one you do the following:

Subject:	there's a dog and a boy and the boy is +/.
Experimenter: crying.
Subject:	+, crying.

+/. followed by +, makes it count as one utterance.

--Judi Fenson
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At 01:24 PM 4/24/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>In my transcription of an L2 picture description task I would like to do
>the following, but I'm not sure whether this is possible with CLAN/CHAT:
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>>What I want to do is transcribe this in such a way as to show that the
>subject's second utterance follows on from her first so that the two
>utterances will be counted as one utterance for the purposes of MLU.  I
>started using the overlap signs, [<] and [>], but this isn't an overlap
>(they're not talking at the same time);  I could use the other-completion
>sign ++ for the experimenter's utterance but that doesn't really solve the
>problem.
>
>Is there a way of doing this that I can't find in the manual!?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Sharon Unsworth
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