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As a general rule, if you cannot understand the speaker's utterance after listening to it three times, it should be considered partly or completely unintelligible.
Marking Unintelligible Segments
Use an X to mark an unintelligible word or syllable. An unintelligible segment is marked with XX. And use XXX when the entire utterance is unintelligible.
Example 1: unintelligible word
C He X away yesterday.
Example 2: unintelligible segment
C He XX away yesterday.
Example 3: unintelligible utterance
C XXX.
SALT considers an utterance to be partly intelligible if the utterance contains both intelligible and unintelligible segments as in the first two examples. An utterance is unintelligible if it consists entirely of unintelligible words or syllables as in the third example. When analyzing your transcript, SALT gives you the option of removing partly intelligible and unintelligible utterances from calculations such as "mean length of utterance" or "number of different words". |
Marking Partly Intelligible Words
Partially intelligible words are not recognized as unintelligible for SALT analyses purposes, but are treated the same as any other word. This is because SALT considers any word to be intelligible unless it consists entirely of Xs. For instance, SALT treats a word transcribed as "Xing" the same as any other intelligible word. Therefore, if you want the word to be considered unintelligible and removed from analyses, you must transcribe the word using all Xs. |
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