Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English Part-II Units Intonation Unit RETURN Truncated intonation unit -- word SPACE truncated word _ Speakers Speaker identity/turn start : Speech overlap [ ] Transitional Continuity Final . Continuing , Appeal ? Terminal Pitch Direction Fall \ Rise / Level - Accent and Lengthening Primary accent ^ Secondary accent ' Booster ! Lengthening = Tone Fall \ Rise / Fall-rise \/ Rise-fall /\ Level - Pause Long ...(N) Medium ... Short .. Latching (0) Vocal Noises Vocal noises ( ) Inhalation (H) Exhalation (Hx) Glottal stop % Laughter @ Quality Quality Laugh quality <@ @> Quotation quality Multiple quality features Y> Phonetics Phonetic transcription (/ /) Transcriber's Perspective Researcher's comments (( )) Uncertain hearing Indecipherable syllable X Specialized notation Duration (N) Intonation unit continued & Intonation subunit boundary | Embedded intonation unit <| |> Reset False start < > Codeswitching Non-transcription Lines Comment $ Interlinear gloss $G Reserved Symbols Phonemic/orthographic , Morphosyntactic coding = * # { } User-definable " ~ ;