SALT Flashcards
$
identifies speakers in the transcript
C
child/client
E
examiner
+
identifies info such as age, gender, and context
:
pause between utterances of different speakers
-
time marker
;
pause between utterances of the same speaker
=
comment line, not analyzed
.
statement, comment
!
surprise, exclamation
?
question
~
intonation prompt
interrupted utterance
>
abandoned utterance
{___}
comments within an utterance
X
marks unintelligible parts of a word
XX
marks unintelligible parts of a segment
XXX
marks unintelligible utterance
/s
plural s
/Z
possessive inflection
/S/Z
plural and possessive
ex) babies’-baby/s/z
/ED
past tense
-predicate adjs not slashed
/3S
3rd person singular verb form
/ing
verb inflection, gerunds not slashed
/N’T
negative contractions, irregular forms not slashed
/’LL /’M /’D /’RE /’S /’VE
contractable verb forms
(_______)
mazes=filled pauses, false starts, repetitions, reformulations, and interjections
- (following one or more letters)
following one or more letters, this indicates that a word was started but left unfinished
ex) I w* want it.
*(before a word)
indicated obligatory context was omitted
ex) give it *to me.
/*
followed by the bound morpheme which was omitted, indicating omission of an obligatory bound morpheme
ex) the car go/*3s fast.
indicate overlapping speech, when speakers are speaking at the same time.
the words or silences that occur at the same time are surrounded by
_
indicates linked words or multiple words
ex) cookie_monster and it_it
%
identifies sound effects which are essential to the meaning or structure of the utterance
ex) The dog went %woof_woof
it also identifies idiosyncratic forms
ex) See %vroom {car}.
