Lexical Units

Lexical units are

• words (according to the dictionary, e.g. the Duden for German)
• interjections
• reduced forms of words
• compound words (a typical German feature)
• special words (like numbers or names which are labelled as such)
• words with articulatory features (like lengthening, reduction, etc.)

The lexical units are transcribed orthographically. German transcriptions follow the spelling of the Duden (please note that we still conform to the 'old` German spelling from before 1995). Capitalisation is not sensitive to punctuation marks like periods or question marks. Thus, each sentence starts with a lower case letter unless the first word is a proper name or a noun.


Dialect speech is transcribed like other speech but can, if necessary, be labelled with a pronunciation comment and/or a global comment in which the dialect of the turn is noted.