Precodes and continuation markers

[Erika Hoff]

We have been transcribing caregiver-child interactions among
Spanish-English bilinguals for several months now. Here's what we do:

We use a 3-letter precode on the speaker tier. The codes we use are spa
(Spanish), eng (English), mix (Mixed), and una (Unassignable). This allows
us to easily generate counts of the number of utterances in each category.
We have no problem running MLT, CHECK, or GEM. We do not use MOR.

We put the overlap marker before the precode.

Hope this helps.

Best to all,

Erika Hoff

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Kevin Donnelly <kevin at dotmon.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> We are using the new(er) precode system for marking language stretches in
> bilingual files.  There is not a great deal of information about this in
> the
> manual, so perhaps I could post a query on the list.
>
> We have been putting the precodes first in the speaker tier, for reasons of
> readability, and also because it makes computer analysis of the tier a bit
> easier.  So we have, for instance:
> *IRI:    [- spa] +< no eso es totalmente natural .
>
> However, when we run CHECK on these files, we get error messages saying:
> Item '+<' must be used at the beginning of tier.
>
> Presumably this means that we have to write:
> *IRI:    +< [- spa] no eso es totalmente natural .
>
> So:
> (a) Is it the case that precodes must follow markers like +< ?
> (b) Are there any other markers or other things to which this applies?
> (c) Are there any other "gotchas" we should watch out for when using
> precodes?
>
> As a subsidiary question, I assume that using the 3-letter ISO-639-3 or
> ISO-639-2 codes (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp) instead of the 2-
> letter ISO-639-1 codes is OK, and fits in with the trend in CLAN towards
> those.
>
> --
> Pob hwyl / Best wishes
>
> Kevin Donnelly
> kevindonnelly.org.uk
>
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Department of Psychology
Florida Atlantic University
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Davie, FL 33314

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