GRASS - Symbols for Orthographic Transcriptions
This article is part of GRASS: the Graz corpus of Read And Spontaneous Speech.
Symbols used for the orthographic transcriptions and their assigned lexica:
- ADABA
- Lexicon of Austrian German
- ERG
- Lexicon with additional German words
- DIAL
- Lexicon with dialect words
- PART
- List of small particles
- FSP
- foreign words
- MWEX
- multi-word expressions
| Lexical Item | Example | Lexicon |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Austrian German words | ich gehe von zu Hause weg | ERG |
| Dialect words | < * DIAL > Kretzn | DIAL |
| High frequent multi-word expressions | ja geh bitte | MWEX |
| Spelling of letters | $G $K $K | – |
| Abbreviations, letters not spoken separately | UNI | ERG |
| Proper names of people, places, etc. | Sankt Michael | ERG |
| Numbers not written with digits | #einhundertdreizehn | ERG |
| Neologisms, invented by the speaker | Genussvermeider | ERG |
| Foreign words | FSP | |
| Hesitations and disfluencies | Example | Lexicon |
| Repetition: word (group) produced more than once | und dann hat \+ hat \+ er | |
| + \und dann \+ + \und dann \+ hat er | ||
| Slip of the tongue | kervehrt\v | PART |
| Broken word | gebra\ | PART |
| Other types of speech and non-speech | Example | |
| Imitation of accent or other person | und\i was\i hast\i du\i | |
| Imitation of an animal, vehicle, etc. | tschu \L tschu \L | PART |
| Whispering of an utterance | er hat eh \F schon \F wissen \F | |
| Non-speech produced by the speakers’ vocal folds | <laughter>, <singing> | |
| <sigh>, <cough>, <smack> | ||
| <breathingIN>, <breathingOUT> | ||
| Non-speech noise while producing a word | <laughter>und <laughter>dann hat er | |
| Non-speech other than mentioned above | <noise> | |
| Overlapping speech of two speakers | \\ja, hm, ja das \\ | |
| \\<laughter>\\ | ||
| Artifacts in the recordings | <# artefact> | |
| Other noises not covered with mentioned symbols | <# noise> |