[tei-council] More Chapter 8 oddities

[Lou Burnard]

On 27/12/12 04:17, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Can anyone explain why the transcription in this example:
>
> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/TS.html#index-egXML-d51e63744>
>
> in this section (in case the egXML id turns out to be transitory):
>
> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca/job/TEIP5/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/TS.html#TSBA>
>
> lacks apostrophes in e.g. "isnt" or "dont"? The text says "It is recoded
> from a text originally transcribed in the CHILDES format", which I know
> nothing about, so perhaps there is some historical reason for omitting
> the apostrophe, but I see no reason for it in this context, where it's
> just exemplifying encoding of a transcription.
>
>

It is not uncommon practice in transcribing speech to omit punctuation.

I'm surprised you've not come across CHILDES before -- it's one of the 
older speech transcription projects/formats (and did not, I think, use 
punctuation)