Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Self-Initiated Repair

Definition: 

Self-initiated repair is a repair that the speaker of the utterance that needs repair makes without a prompting from another participant.

Examples: 

I need a new bolt for my oil filt—um, PAN.

See Also: 
Speaker
Utterance
Source: 
Levinson 1983
340–341

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

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  • Self-Initiated Repair