professional video transcription?

Tue Mar 4 18:29:12 UTC 2014

My point about transcribing AAE didn't have to do with prescriptive vs. descriptive. It's simply that you need native speakers to accurately transcribe the phonetics of a language. I say this after the experience of a cross-linguistic grant in L1 phonological acquisition across American English (MAE from Columbus, OH), Greek, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Korean. All of our transcribers were trained phoneticians (linguistics or speech-language pathologists). We found that we could get accurate and transcriptions with high inter-rater reliability only when transcribers were both native speakers and trained phoneticians. More recently, we've found the same thing with AAE.

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On 03/04/14, Johanne Paradis  wrote:
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> I agree completely with Marilyn - effective transcription of very young children requires training. I also think that transcribers with some linguistics background will be better at transcribing non-standard dialects since they will have been introduced to the prescriptive vs. descriptive distinction. My final comment is about transcription format. It would be far more efficient to transcribe using CHAT in the first place. 
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> On 2014-03-04, at 10:25 AM, Marilyn Vihman <marilyn.vihman at york.ac.uk <marilyn.vihman at york.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> > You are thinking of getting non-linguists, non-phoneticians to transcribe infants as young as 13 months? How useful do you expect the resulting data to be? I think there will turn out to be no substitute for ‘hiring, training and supervising transcribers’. Of course, it depends what you want to learn from the data - but I am afraid infants up to age 2 or 3 won’t give you data of any real interest unless the transcriber has linguistic training of some kind.
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> > On 4 Mar 2014, at 17:09, Eileen Graf <eileen.graf at googlemail.com <eileen.graf at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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> > > We are planning to obtain language samples from parent-child dyads over a period of 5 years. Over this period, we will accumulate almost 14,000 hours of video, and we are looking to find the most cost-effective way to have them transcribed. 
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> > > We are considering a professional transcription service (in the US: www.verbalink.com(http://www.verbalink.com/)), since they are quite a lot cheaper than the cost of hiring, training and supervising transcribers. However, we have a few concerns, and were wondering if anybody has experiences to share. 
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> > > Our study will follow children from 1;1 to 4;6 and we're concerned about transcription by people who are not in some way trained in language development, especially at the younger ages. But maybe this concern is unwarranted and a verbatim transcription (of literally every sound that the parent or the child produces) will give us what we need?
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> > > Similarly, our study population are to a large extent speakers of AAVE, and we're somewhat wary as to whether a non-academic transcription service can be trusted to transcribe AAVE felicitously. 
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> > > We're also wondering whether it is relatively easy to convert verbatim transcripts into the CHAT format or whether it would be advisable to transcribe using CHAT in the first place. 
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> > > If anyone has experience with or advice on these issues we would be most grateful for your input! 
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