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Bound Morphemes | Omissions and Errors | Spanish Transcription | SALT for Mac Users | Miscellaneous
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Does SALT run on a Mac? |
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SALT is a Windows program and does not run on a Mac. There are software programs, however, which allow Macs to run Windows software. SALT has been run successfully using Parallels, Bootcamp, and VMware Fusion. Let us know if you've tried it with any other software programs.
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Should we identify the word root associated with irregular past tense forms? e.g., went|go, kept|keep, did|do, don't|do |
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This is a trade off between accuracy and the burden of transcription. We want to
keep transcription as simple as possible. In English, there are just a few
irregular verbs that are used a lot. We believe that the loss of accuracy is
minimal as long as we are consistent. The SALT Reference Database does not
identify word roots for the irregular forms.
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What if there are some things going on during the session that the transcriber cannot see, but lend to the context of the language sample? For example, the clinician says, "How old are you?" - 3-second pause - "Four? Wow! You're a big kid." |
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Consider the two following transcriptions for this example:
| Marked as a pause that ends the examiner's speaking turn. |
Marked as a nonverbal utterance of the child. | | E How old are you? | E How old are you? | | : 0:03 | C { assume child responded in some way }. | | E Four! | E Four! | | E Wow! | E Wow! | | E You/'re a big kid. | E You/'re a big kid. |
We prefer the transcription on the left where you do not make any
assumptions.
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