Wootton2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Anthony J. Wootton |
| Title | A puzzle about 'please': repair, increments, and related matters in the speech of a young child |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Young Children, Repair, Increments, Please |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 40 |
| Number | 2-3 |
| Pages | 171–198 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351810701354623 |
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Abstract
Children can be required to add please either to their request or to an affirmative response that they make to an offer. Sometimes children as young as 2 years spontaneously add this term after the completion of their turn without being required to do so. In this article, I examine a small number of such instances and situate them within the child's repertoire of skills that have a bearing on this phenomenon—the child's capacity to add increments to a turn after turn ending, the interpretations that the child can place on pauses that occur after turn ending, and the child's techniques for carrying out self-repair on something he or she has just said.
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