<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I teach speech pathology students at Governors State, south of your university, and can ask if anyone has experience in transcription of AAVE.</div><div>Eileen Brann, PhD</div><div>GSU</div><div>University Park, IL<br><br>On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Eileen Graf <<a href="mailto:eileen.graf@googlemail.com">eileen.graf@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear everyone,</span></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div>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. </span><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div><br></div><div>We are considering a professional transcription service (in the US: <a href="http://www.verbalink.com/" target="_blank">www.verbalink.com</a>), 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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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. <br>
</div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div>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. <br>
<br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If anyone has experience with or advice on these issues we would be most grateful for your input!<div class=""><div id=":2hh" class="" tabindex="0">
<img class="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"></div><div id=":2hh" class="" tabindex="0">Best,</div><div id=":2hh" class="" tabindex="0">Eileen Graf</div><div id=":2hh" class="" tabindex="0"><br>
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