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Publication details [#46230]

Wootton, Anthony. 2007. A Puzzle About Please: Repair, Increments, and Related Matters in the Speech of a Young Child. Research on Language and Social Interaction 40 (2,3) : 171–198.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | discourse analysis | repair | self-repair | turn-taking

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores a small number of instances in which children spontaneously add the term 'please' after their turn completion and locate them within the child's repertoire of capacities that affect this phenomenon.