De-identifying name-spelling activities in CHAT

[Sarah Surrain]

Hi all,

I'm working on a new corpus of child language data drawn from randomly 
selected 5-minute clips of daylong home recordings. We're transcribing in 
ELAN using CHAT conventions. Our de-identification protocol replaces the 
child's spoken name with "Child_name" throughout. I have two related 
questions that I don't think the CHAT manual addresses directly, and I'd 
love the community's input.

1.* De-identifying a name-spelling activity:* In this clip, a father and 
daughter dyad engage in a name-spelling activity. He guides her through the 
letters and sounds of her name as she writes the letters. Transcribing this 
verbatim would effectively reveal the child's name through the sequence of 
letters and sounds, even if we never write the name itself.

Here is a pseudonymized version of the exchange (the child's name has been 
replaced with "Vanessa"). MA1 = Male Adult 1 (the father):

Original Spanish:
*MA1: v at l.
*MA1: /va/.
*MA1: /ne/.
*MA1: tan rápido?
*MA1: /s/.
*CHI: es s at l.
*MA1: s at l Vanes +...
*MA1: s at l.
*MA1: a at l, Vanessa.

English Translation:
*MA1: v at l.
*MA1: /va/.
*MA1: /ne/.
*MA1: so fast?
*MA1: /s/.
*CHI: it's s at l.
*MA1: s at l, Vanes...
*MA1: s at l.
*MA1: a at l, Vanessa.

I've considered replacing the actual letters and sounds with the 
corresponding letters/sounds of a pseudonym, or just using a placeholder 
like [Child_name spelled] or &=spells_child_name.

*2. Transcribing deliberate, isolated letter sounds and syllables*. This 
exchange also raises another transcription question. The father produces 
isolated phonemes (/s/) and syllables (/va/, /ne/) as deliberate 
pedagogical acts — he is teaching his daughter how to spell her name by 
modeling its component sounds. This is distinct from letter naming, which 
CHAT handles with @l. Is there a CHAT convention for this? (Because it is 
in Spanish, we have the added complication that sometimes the letter name 
and letter sound are the same, as in the final A of Vanessa.)

Any guidance on either question would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Sarah Surrain

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