| Underline |
Emphasis |
| Italics |
overlap of speech between speakers |
| [#] |
length of pause in seconds |
| : |
elongation of syllable |
| , |
pause |
| . |
stop with falling intonation |
| - |
abrupt halt of syllable |
| ? |
stop with rising or question intonation |
| [ ] |
paralinguistic feature |
| \ \ |
start/finish of paralinguistic feature described in [ ] |
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