{"title":"Issues in the Transcription of English Conversational Grunts","authors":"Nigel G. Ward","doi":"10.3115/1117736.1117740","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Conversational grunts, such as uh-huh, un-hn, mm, and oh are ubiquitous in spoken English, but no satisfactory scheme for transcribing these items exists. This paper describes previous approaches, presents some facts about the phonetics of grunts, proposes a transcription scheme, and evaluates its accuracy.","PeriodicalId":426429,"journal":{"name":"SIGDIAL Workshop","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SIGDIAL Workshop","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1117736.1117740","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Conversational grunts, such as uh-huh, un-hn, mm, and oh are ubiquitous in spoken English, but no satisfactory scheme for transcribing these items exists. This paper describes previous approaches, presents some facts about the phonetics of grunts, proposes a transcription scheme, and evaluates its accuracy.