Notes inserted by the transcriber to explain what a speaker is referring to, if it is not obvious from the dialogue
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Nonverbal contributions with content
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Contributions to the conversation that are not "words" (mhm, uhhuh, nods, shrug, etc.)
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Talking to camera
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What do you think?
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Complete Utterance
Front
"A unit of speech with complete semantic and syntactic content"
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Mazes
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Attempts made by the speaker to keep the floor as they try to formulate their utterance
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False start
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Unfinished words
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Backchannels
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Responses to utterances that one speaker makes to acknowledge the dialogue or to prompt the other speaker to continue. NEVER occur in response to questions. If the speaker continues to talk after offering the backchannel, DON'T count it UNLESS there is a pause of 2+ seconds
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Unfinished/Abandoned Utterances
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The speaker starts to say something but doesn't finish their thought.
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Pauses
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A break between words or utterances that lasts for at least 2 seconds.
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Interruptions
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A speaker begins a new utterance before the current speaker finishes what they are saying
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Repitition
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When an entire word or combination of words is repeated by the same speaker. They can occur at any point during an utterance
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Overlaps
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Both the parents and child speak at the same time. Often occurs with interruptions
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Questions
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When a speaker's inflection is upturned and/or the grammatical structure of the utterance is in question form for complete utterances
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Nonverbals without content
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Other sounds, such as sound effects, singing, and exclamations (ohno, wow, gasps, oops, whoa) that are not considered words
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Parenthetical Remarks
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When a speaker interrupts their own utterance or train of speaking with another utterance or side comment and then continues their original utterance
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Revision
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When a speaker starts to say something, stops, and then continues on with the SAME topic but with DIFFERENT wording