A phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation.

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1992
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Mouton de Gruyter
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Natural human conversations are hardly 'error-free', due to the properties of interaction. Repair is therefor a concomitant part of any natural conversation. Phonetic (and sometimes Morpho-syntactic) cues are deployed to signal repair in conversation. Evidence is provided from natural interactions to show that such phonetic cues as pauses; prolongation of phonic or syllabic elements; loudness and pitch may be deployed singly or conjointly to signal repair. The paper also demonstrates that a detailed knowledge about repair provides a considerable insight into turn-regulation.
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Ghana, West Africa, linguistics, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics
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Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. A phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation. Text 12, no.1 (1992): 59-80.
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