Floyd2015

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Floyd2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Floyd2015
Author(s) Simeon Floyd
Title Other-initiated repair in Cha’palaa
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Tag(s) EMCA, Repair, Other-initiated repair, Typology, Cha'palaa
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Open Linguistics
Volume 1
Number 1
Pages 467–489
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DOI 10.1515/opli-2015-0014
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Abstract

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.

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