Overlapping Speech

Use angle brackets to mark overlapping speech

All words that are spoken concurrently are enclosed in angle brackets. Final punctuation marks are still required to end the utterance. For example,
   E Do you want to see <the book now>?
   C <I want to> open the book.

Overlapping speech in middle of utterance

The overlapping speech may occur in the middle of an utterance. Just mark the overlapping segments and continue transcribing the utterance. For example,
   C I like that book <because it/'s about> ghosts.
   E <Tell me about it>.

Overlapping speech within or around mazes

Example,
   C On Saturday I went (um <to um) to> my friend/z house.
   E <Where>?

Marking feedback as overlapping speech

Sometimes one speaker uses words such as "uhhuh" or "mhm" as feedback to encourage another speaker to continue speaking. If these words overlap the other speaker's words, then mark them as you would any other overlap. For example,
   C My friend <got to> go home early today.
   E <Mhm>.

However, if such feedback is given in the middle of another person's utterance but does not overlap the speaker's words, use empty brackets to indicate the location of the feedback. This representation allows for a more accurate representation of the utterance count within a conversational turn. For example,
   C I have two cat/s and < > some fish.
   E <Mhm>.