new transcription norms?

[Camilla Bardel]

Hello,
we are working on a large corpus of transcribed and coded italian
interlanguage since a couple of years.

We redownloaded childes on September 4, 2003, and suddenly CHECK doesn't
accept our transcribed files anymore. It reacts to the tabs following the
participant names. We also noticed that the symbol "-:" wasn't accepted
anymore. Has it been replaced by another symbol or do we have to remove all
the occurrences of this symbol from our files?

In some of our transcriptions we have placed the bullet directly after the
participants tier. This has not been a problem before, but now CHECK comes
up with a message saying:
Item '<bullet>' must be preceded by text or '0'.(73)

Are there other changes that we need to know about in order to get CHECK to
accept our files? How can we update our files?

We have looked in the manual for a description of the error numbers that
appear in the results of CHECK, but we can't find any - is there one
available somewhere?

Finally, we wonder how important it is to adapt to all these changes - what
are the technical consequences if we continue using our transcriptions the
way they are transcribed originally?

Best regards,

Camilla Bardel, Johanna Wahlberg and Anna Gudmundson