Breathing
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Symbol | <B> |
Definition |
The inhalation or exhalation that occurs during spontaneous speech often happens at prosodic or syntactic boundaries. In a transcript, only breathing that can be heard on the recording is transcribed. Breathing often occurs
in combination with <Smack> (lip smack, tongue smack), which
is described in the Human
Noises section. An exhalation that follows a word-final plosive consonant
(like the 't' in wet) should be interpreted as a
lengthening of the plosive consonant (wet<L> |
Rules for Transcribing the <B> | |
1. Breathing should NOT be transcribed during a pause. The rationale is that if a person is breathing, then he or she is not pausing. 2.If punctuation and respiration collide, punctuation is always transliterated first followed by the respiration element <B> . 3. For an instance where an inhalation is followed by an audible exhalation - e.g. the breath is one unit - only one <B>needs to be transcribed. |
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Examples | 1.when
do you |
2. why ? <B> do you know her ? | |
3.
oh ,<B> <uh> |
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Special Cases | In German transcriptions <A> (German: Atmen) is often used instead of <B>. |
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