Terminators and Linkers

CHAT Quiz 1-5




1 Identify the symbol for interruption:
+...
+/.
++
none of the above

2 How should a relatively short pause be transcribed?
a short pause is not transcribed in CHAT transcription
with the # symbol
the speech should be separated into two utterances
a comma is used to indicate a short pause

3 Which of the following symbols indicates other-completion?
+^
+,
++
+//.

4 Identify the symbol to indicate that a quotation precedes an utterance:
+?
"+
+"
none of the above

5 What does the +//. symbol indicate in the following utterance?
*CHI: Daddy, more juice now!
*DAD: I was just going to +//.
self-completion
other-completion
trailing off of a question
self-interruption

6 Which of the following are the basic utterance terminators?
period and question mark
period, comma, and question mark
period, question mark, and exclamation mark
period, comma, question mark, and exclamation mark

7 Identify the FALSE pairing of symbol and defintion:
+". indicates quotation precedes
[c] indicates a clause delimiter
++ indicates other-completion
+^ is a lazy overlap marking

8 An utterance is trailed off to the shape of a question. Which symbol should be used to indicate this?
+...
...-?
+..?
none of the above

9 A child is slowly listing the letters of the alphabet. Which of the following symbols should be used as an utterance terminator to indicate listing?
-?
-:
+...
+/?

10 Which of the following symbols indicates interruption?
+...
+//.
+/?
+/.

11 Identify the symbol used to indicate a quick uptake:
+<
++
+...!
+^

12 What does the +//? symbol indicate?
self-interruption of a question
a paralinguistic event
a stressed syllable
none of the above

13 What does the +, symbol in the following utterances indicate?
*CHI: I'm going to run and run +...
*MOT: and then what?
*CHI: +, and run and run!
interruption
self-interruption
self-completion
other-completion

14 What do the +"/. and +" symbols indicate in the following utterances?
*MOT: and then the big bad wolf said +"/.
*MOT: +" I'm going to huff and puff and blow your house down.
+"/. indicates a quotation follows on the next line; +" indicates the quoted utterance
+"/. indicates the interruption of a quoted utterance which appears on the next line and is indicated by +"
+"/. indicates a quotation follows on the next line; +" indicates a pause before the start of quoted utterance
none of the above

15 In CHAT convention, what is the function of the comma?
to indicate a pause in speech
to indicate syntactic juncture
to indicate a tag question
all of the above