Sample English Transcript
Conversation between child and examiner
| Transcript | Explanation |
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| $ Child, Examiner | The $ line at the beginning of the transcript identifies the speakers. The child's utterances begin with C and the examiner's utterances begin with E. |
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+Name: Melanie H. +Gender: F +DOE: 10/5/96 +DOB: 10/2/87 +CA: 9;0 +Grade: 4 +Context: CON |
The plus lines "+" are comment lines containing demographic information. |
| E What was go/ing on? C He was not pay/ing attention (when um) when she was talk/ing. |
Bound morphemes are slashed as in "go/ing" and "happen/ed". |
| C (And um) :02 and (he) he/'s been really bad this whole year. | Time markers, such as ":02", are inserted in the middle of utterances to mark significant pauses (2 seconds or longer). Pause times may also be inserted between utterances. |
| E Has he? C Yeah. E Mhm. |
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| E What happen/ed today that made him go outside? C (Um :02 he was um) he was not do/ing anything that Miss_Cook said. E Mhm. |
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| C And :02 (um) he was like (no*) not pay/ing attention. | Incomplete words, usually found in mazes, end with an asterisk as in "(no*)". |
| C He was pay/ing attention to (um) Larry/z mom. | |
| E Was she in there? C (Um) yeah. E Oh. |
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| C Miss_Cook got angry (so[FP]). | Mazes are parenthesized. These are the filled pauses, repetitions, and reformulations. The [FP] code identifies non-standard filled pause words. |
| C (A*) and (um then he did it) then he was like (um like) touch/ing on (e* ever*) everybody [EU]. | If you want to mark anything for which there is no transcript convention, put a code in square brackets, as in [EU] (used to mark errors in the content or structure of the child's utterances). |
| C (And) < > and go/ing on their desk/s (and :02 so then) and then she put him out in the hall. E < Oh >. |
Overlapping speech is marked with angle brackets <like these>. The empty overlap symbol "< >" in the child's utterance indicates that the examiner's "Oh" occurred between the child's words - not really an overlap but coded as such. |
| E And he tried to get in. C Yep and (he/'s) he/'s been make/ing really weird noise/s and sound effect/s |
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| E Through the door? C Yeah (where that little) where that little thing is where you can talk into or something. |
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| E It/'s a little vent. C Yeah. E Mhm. |
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| E And how are the kid/s manage/ing inside the class? C Oh we were right by the door so it was kind of hard to write down (and[FP])[EU]. C Because see we were do/ing (um) stuff that could help you if you were in an emergency. C (Who) who would you go to or something. |