Coding unintelligible language

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Elnaz,

      Yes, it is okay to use repetitions of xxx, if you want to mark the fact that several words are unintelligible.  Many analyses exclude sentences with unintelligible segments, so it doesn’t really matter in such cases whether you have just xxx or xxx xxx.  However, representing how many words are missing might be helpful when listening to the audio.

— Brian MacWhinney
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, 
Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU



> On Apr 22, 2021, at 6:50 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a question about coding unintelligible language with xxx. Here is my understanding based on the 2020 CHAT instruction manual (MacWhinney, 2020): 
> 
> - If a complete utterance is fully unintelligible, I should mark the utterance with xxx.
> - If I am able to tell the number of words that are unintelligible, then I should use that many strings of xxx. For instance, if the utterance is “I am a teacher” and I can only get the “I am” part, but I hear 2 other words that are unintelligible, then I should code the sentence like this:
> “I am xxx xxx.” 
> - I can use as many xxx strings as I want for the number of words that are unintelligible. 
> 
> Would you confirm my understandings?
> 
> Thank you,
> Elnaz
> 
> Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
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