Other-initiated repair in Italian

• Authors: Giovanni Rossi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article describes the interactional patterns and linguistic structures associated with other-initiated repair, as observed in a corpus of video recorded conversation in the Italian language (Romance). The article reports findings specific to the Italian language from the comparative project that is the topic of this special issue. While giving an overview of all the major practices for other-initiation of repair found in this language, special attention is given to (i) the functional distinctions between different open strategies (interjection, question words, formulaic), and (ii) the role of intonation in discriminating alternative restricted strategies, with a focus on different contour types used to produce repetitions.

Keywords

EN

other-initiated repair; Italian; repair initiators; intonation; repetition

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

Dates

received

2014-09-26

accepted

2015-01-22

online

2015-05-21

Contributors

author

Giovanni Rossi

• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opli-2015-0002