vocative symbol

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Yuriko,
     You should put it at the location of the pause or tone dip, where you had been putting a comma, which means after Mommy in the first case.  The second case is fine.  I hadn't thought about the third case, but there also it should follow.   
    Yes, the form &=imit:airplane is good.  Note that it uses the equals and not the colon after the ampersand.  However, to be more explicit, you could have &=imit:sound:airplane.  I am guessing that the actual sound being made is not as important as the fact that the child is trying to imitate the sound of the airplane.

-- Brian

On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Yuriko Oshima-Takane wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>  
> I am teaching the CHAT in my class this semester and I have a couple of
> questions about new symbols. 
> In the window new symbol list, one student found that‡is indicated
> as vocative. Does this mean that we should use this symbol indicating
> a vocative use of proper names or kinship terms like the following example?
> *CHI: ‡Mommy give it to me.
> *CHI: Look ‡Mommy.
> *CHI: ‡Mommy.
>  
> I used to transcribe above like:
> *CHI: Mommy, give it to me.
> *CHI: Look, Mommy.
> *CHI: Mommy.
> %com: vocative
>  
> Another question is the use of &:imit for the imitation of sounds.
> For instance, if the child tries to imitate an airplane sound, can we
> transcribe it like the following example?
> *CHI:  ween &:imit:airplane .
>  
> I used to transcribe this like:
> *CHI: ween [= air plane sound].
>  
> Please let me know. Thank you.
>  
> Yuriko
>  
>  

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