118 A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse
5.2 Transcribing the Corpus
As ultimately it is people who are the intended recipients of linguistic
messages and it is human hearers who must attempt to try to tease out
intended speaker meaning, it was decided to initially transcribe the
readings of Texts 1 and 2 using only auditory means. This was done as
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Figure 5.1 Variation in extent of tone units
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Figure 5.2 Text 1 variation in increment length