utterance delimitors

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Caro,

    Spaces are not required. I think they haven’t been required for  However, they can be added if people like to make it clearer that they are there.

—Brian

> On Nov 14, 2022, at 1:13 PM, Rowland, Caroline <crowland at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi childes team,
>  Last time I actually did transcription myself in CHAT (a while ago!) we added spaces before utterance delimiters:
> e.g. *CHI:     I love cake .
>  I thought that rule had changed and we no longer needed to do so:
> E,g, *CHI:     I love cake.
>  But the CHAT manual seems to be inconsistent – examples sometimes have spaces and sometimes don’t. Can you let me know what the new convention is?
>  Thank you!
>  Caro
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