Other-initiated repair in Cha’palaa

• Authors: Simeon Floyd
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article describes the interactional patterns and linguistic structures associated with otherinitiated repair, as observed in a corpus of video-recorded conversation in the Cha’palaa (a Barbacoan language spoken in north-western Ecuador). Special attention is given to the relation of repair formats to the morphosyntactic and intonational systems of the language. It examines the distinctive falling intonation observed with interjections and content question formats and the pattern of a held mid-high tone observed in polarity questions, as well as the function of Cha’palaa grammatical features such as the case marking system, the nominal classifiers and the verb classification system as formats for repair initiation. It considers a selection of examples from a video corpus to illustrate a broad range of sequence types of opened and restricted other-initiated repair, noting that Cha’palaa had the highest relative rate of open repair in the cross-linguistic sample. It also considers the extension of OIR to other practices such as news uptake and disagreement in the Cha’palaa corpus.

Keywords

EN

other-initiated repair; conversation analysis; intonation; Cha'palaa

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2014-09-29

accepted

2015-06-09

online

2015-09-08

Contributors

author

Simeon Floyd

• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opli-2015-0014