Coding unintelligible language

[Elnaz Kia]

Dear Brian,

Thank you so much for your prompt and helpful response. I do have one more
question. *Is there a way to batch edit CHAT files? *For instance, my
transcribers used different ways to code unintelligible utterances and I
want them to revise those instances to assure consistency in coding.
However, they have already transcribed hundreds of files and it is really
time-consuming to go back and edit them one by one.

I would really appreciate any help or guidance on that.

Thank you,
Elnaz

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

*Post-Doctoral Research Associate
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Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
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University of Utah

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:56 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> 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)
> > Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> > Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> > University of Utah
> > LinkedIn
> > Personal Website
> >
> >
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