Truncated Words

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Truncated words occur when the speaker has begun to articulate a word but doesn't finish it. In other words the item is terminated at a point where some of the component sounds have already been produced, while the rest has been cut off before being articulated. The equal sign is used here as the label and also placed during a series of stutters where parts of a word are repeated but the word as a whole is still not completely pronounced. Again, the label is directly added to the word.

w001_ptd_001_AAA: meine +/fra=/+ Frage lautet .

w001_ptd_001_AAA: könntest du mir hel= <*T>t

Note:
This label appears most of the time together with other labels such as false start (see 3.2.19), repetition (see 3.2.18) and turn break (see 3.2.16).