A way to link self-interruptions and self-completions?

[Brian Macwhinney]

Dear Figen,
    Self-interruptions of this type (what Kuteva and Heine call “theticals”) are interesting.  However, trying to capture all of this in a transcription system is not going to be easy.  Wouldn’t it perhaps be just as good to transcribe this as one long sentence, perhaps with a marker for  the thetical, as in:

*CHI:  after a walk in the forest <by the way there is a river nearby> [//] they went to the riverside.  

If your goal is to exclude the thetical from things like MOR analysis or MLU counting, this would work.  Use of the [//] marker here is a bit of a stretch and I guess we could add another type of marker such as [/+] to CHAT to mark theticals.

—Brian MacWhinney

> On Sep 7, 2023, at 3:18 PM, Figen Karaca <figenkaracauz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Chibolts,
> 
> CLAN treats the utterances ending with the +/. symbol and starting with +, symbol as a single utterance if the interruption comes from another speaker. I was wondering whether there is a way to link a self-interrupted utterance (marked with +//.) with a subsequent utterance by the same speaker (marked with +,) when there is an intermediate utterance by the same speaker between these two utterances.
> 
> More specifically, for instance, in the example below, is there a way to link the first and the third utterance by the same speaker so that CLAN treats them as a single utterance?
> 
> *CHI: after a walk in the forest +//.
> *CHI: by the way there is a river nearby .
> *CHI: +, they went to the riverside .
> 
> Best,
> Figen
> 
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