- Coding Accuracy (and errors)
Accuracy is the measure of any errors in the transcribed utterances.
This part requires manual coding as CALF is not yet advanced enough to spot errors.
If a clause (main clause or sub-clause) is error free, insert the code “errfr” at the end of that utterance, before the clause boundary (i.e. ::: or :;: , for details refer to Section 3).
When coding errors, keep in mind the following:
- Error codes appear before boundary symbols: “:::”, “:;:” and “|”
- Gravity of an error is measured by the (semantic) distance between the produced form and the target form.
- Minor errors are those which do not cause ambiguity. Erroneous forms may be unidiomatic or even bizarre, but I still consider them minor because I have no difficulty in guessing the intended forms. (old man of Christmas)
- corrected errors need not be indicated.
- If a clause is not marked with errfr, it is counted as incorrect.
A basic unit of error coding is like this:
err_m_s
“err” always goes in the front to indicates an error exist in that clause.
Central position indicates the severity of error, m (minor), s (severe), i (unintelligible), a (avoidance).
End position indicates type of error, l(exical), s(yntactic), p(honological), m(orphological), d(iscoursal), p(r)agmatic
Here is a summary of all possible combination of codes:
| <X> | unclear syllable or sound up to one word |
| <XX> | two unclear words |
| <XXX> | more than two unclear words |
| <?> | best guess |
| errfr | error-free clause |
| err_m_m | minor morphological error |
| err_s_m | severe morphological error |
| err_i_m | unintelligible morphological error |
| err_m_s | minor syntactic error |
| err_s_s | severe syntactic error |
| err_i_s | unintelligible error |
| err_a_s | structure is absent. impossible to comprehend. (a pencil?) |
| err_m_l | minor lexical error |
| err_s_l | severe lexical error |
| err_i_l | unintelligible lexical error |
| err_a_l | apparent lexical avoidance. (now he’s going to the * the # .) often appears with # . including switching to mother tongue. |
| err_m_p | minor phonological error |
| err_s_p | severe lexical error |
| err_i_p | unintelligible phonological error |
| err_a_p | never seen such a thing |
| err_m_d | minor discourse error |
| err_s_d | severe discourse error |
| err_i_d | unintelligible discourse error. There may be no such thing. |
| err_a | avoidance of unspecific type. total abandonment. often appears with # (now he’s # .) |
| err_m_r | minor pragmatic error |
| err_s_r | severe pragmatic error |
| err_i_r | unintelligible pragmatic error |