Transcription Questions

How should utterances from ELL speakers who reiterate the subject pronoun be transcribed? Examples:  “The boy he fell out of the window” and “The frog he had the jar on his head”.

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If a child is asked to identify a letter of the alphabet and correctly identifies the letter – for example an “A” – how would you transcribe it? If you want to differentiate between the article ...

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I noticed that SALT 2012 introduced a convention for marking prefixes, e.g., unhappy. Are prefixes marked in the reference database samples? Posted by SALT Support Staff Sep 16, 2014

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I am hoping to use SALT for my current research project, which involves the transcription and coding of focus group interviews. Do you know of a way to use SALT with more than two speakers? Poste...

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I am transcribing a narrative but I am not sure how to make note of utterances that were unintelligible. Is there a code I can use for that? Posted by SALT Support Staff Sep 21, 2014

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How do you transcribe word-position errors? e.g. The speaker says "I see the dog big." Posted by SALT Support Staff Aug 17, 2014

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How do you describe "errors" in standard form due to ethnic dialect? Posted by SALT Support Staff Aug 17, 2014

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How do you transcribe a word that can function as a verb or a gerund, e.g., "ice skating"? Posted by SALT Support Staff Aug 17, 2014

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How do you transcribe something that is not obligatory but sounds better if is included? e.g. The child says "Looks like he fell down.", instead of saying "It looks like he fell down." Posted by S...

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How do I import transcription from a Word document into SALT? Posted by SALT Support Staff Nov 26, 2014

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