All laughter is marked. Speaker ID not marked if current speaker laughs. Used for non-English words or phrases. Dialect or other phonological variations are generally not represented. Two x's in parentheses indicate one or more words that are completely unintelligible.
Words surrounded by parentheses indicate the transcription is uncertain.
In some cases, names of non-present people referred to in the recording are also changed. There is no SGML marking for names. Standard orthography is used for most words, even though they may not be fully pronounced, may be pronounced with a foreign accent, etc. In general, phonologically reduced forms are not represented, except as noted below. Neither the beginnings of turns nor the pronoun 'i' are capitalized.