Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Shintaro Matsunaga, Yuri Nunokawa, Yuki Yoshikawa, and Tianhao Zhang for their helpful and constructive feedback on earlier versions of this paper.
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= Latching [ ] Beginning and ending of overlapping (0.0) Length of silence (.) Micro pause wo:rd Prolonged sound °word° Soft sound WORD Louder sound Word Putting emphasis or stress Wo- Cut-off >word< Speedy utterance .hhh Inbreath (h) Laughter .,¿? Intonation (( )) Transcriber’s note References
