New way to transcribe song lyrics?

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Lulu,
     I can't think of any change at any point that was specifically about marking songs.  I think perhaps you are referring to a change made three years ago in the method for marking quotations.  If that is what you are referring to, then there is indeed an easy way of marking that a whole utterance is a quotation.  This is to precede the utterance with +"   Is that possibly what you might be referring to?

-- Brian MacWhinney, Teresa Heinz
Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
Computational Linguistics, 
and Modern Languages, CMU

> On Feb 21, 2020, at 5:29 PM, Lulu <lulusong at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi! My transcribers just brought to my attention that the new CHAT manual changed the way how song lyrics should be transcribed from the previous manual. Specifically, instead of marking a whole utterance as a verse in a song with a symbol at the beginning and the end of the verse respectively, now the transcriber would need to add a symbol AFTER EACH WORD. The new way seems very labor-intensive. Is that right? Why the change? If it has to be done that way, is there any method to make it easier for the transcriber?
> 
> Any insights or tips would be appreciated. Thanks!
> Lulu Song
> 
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