A phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation.

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dc.contributor.authorObeng, Samuel Gyasi
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-28T14:08:51Z
dc.date.available2008-07-28T14:08:51Z
dc.date.issued1992
dc.description.abstractNatural 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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dc.identifier.citationObeng, Samuel Gyasi. A phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation. Text 12, no.1 (1992): 59-80.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/3159
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMouton de Gruyter
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dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectWest Africa
dc.subjectlinguistics
dc.subjectconversation analysis
dc.subjectsociolinguistics
dc.titleA phonetic description of some repair sequences in Akan conversation.
dc.typeArticle

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