Each word in the RM and RR is given a label to signify its role: lower case "r", "s", "i" and "d" are used.
| - | word fragment ({ab|wor}in original transcriptions) e.g. r-, s-, d-, i- |
| ~ | misarticulated word, repeated correctly in repair. |
| ^ |
contractions (it's - that's : <S1 s^r IP s^r S1>) (count as one word) Where word-boundary labelling does not permit a contraction to be split up, the symbol "x" is used to label a word that is irrelevant for the disfluency. e.g. I I've done that == <R1 r IP r^x R1> |
| c | outer part of complex disfluency (see below) |
| o | overlap -- speaker stops/is interrupted and other speaker takes over or speaker interrupts other |
| Repeated single fragment: repair includes whole word. | ||||
| but | n- | not | too far north | |
| <R0.5 | r- | IP | r R0.5> | |
| - | ||||
| Single word repetition. | ||||
| right to | my | my | left | |
| <R1 | r | IP | r R1> | |
| - | ||||
| Two word repetition with Filled Pause. | ||||
| go to your left | until you're | - | uh until you're | level ... |
| <R2 | r r | IP | FP r r R2> | |
| - | ||||
| Substitution -- two words plus fragment (fragment is substituted). | ||||
| like | to the r- | - | to the left | of the burnt forest |
| <S2.5 | r r s- | IP | r r s S2.5> | |
| - | ||||
| Deletion -- 4 words plus fragment. No repair. | ||||
| well go down | until you're in a ver- | - | right see the windows... | |
| <D4.5 | d d d d d- | IP | D4.5> | |
Coindexing: in simple cases like these there's no need for coindexing of feature labels, as the same serial ordering is found in RM and RR.
Substitutions can be one-to-many or many-to-one.