Wootton2007

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Wootton2007
BibType ARTICLE
Key Wootton2007
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
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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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