A (tough) transcription question
Susan M. Powers
spowers at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Tue Nov 23 16:45:27 UTC 1999
Dear all,
I am hoping someone has a suggestion for the following example in which
the mother interrupted herself in the middle of the participle form of a
particle verb in German.
It now stands in the transcript as:
*MOT: runtergekn [//] # sprungen.
"runter" means down, "ge-" is the past tense morpheme, and the verb that
the mother
started to say begins with the consonant cluster "kn" but instead she
wanted to say:
runtergesprungen
or "down-ge-jumped" (jumped down) which is one word.
I can come up with two possibilities. The first is:
&runterge &kn [//] sprungen .
but because of the & this will not be counted as the single word
"runtergesprungen".
Also "sprungen" is a past participle and is ungrammatical with out "ge-"
.
The second is:
runtergekn [//] runtergesprungen .
but this is not really what was said.
Is there a way to mark a self-correction within a single word?
Thanks,
Susan Powers
University of Potsdam
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