Restarts : Symptom or Signal?

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Author list: Todd, R. W.

Publication year: 2014

Journal: rEFLections (1513-5934)

Issue number: 17

Start page: 54

End page: 69

ISSN: 1513-5934

URL: http://sola.kmutt.ac.th/homesola/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Vol-17_January-June-2014.pdf

Abstract

Hesitation phenomena are common in spontaneous speech and haveto aid listener comprehension. Focusing on simple restarts (i.e. repetitions)and complex restarts (i.e. false starts), this paper examines these in acorpus of naturally occurring conversation for length of restart, associationwith other hesitation phenomena, position in discourse, content, andcomplexity (grammatical weight, association with given or newthat restarts are associated with new information and words with lowfrequencies of use, but rarely occur at the start of T-units and do not differfrom non-restarts in grammatical weight. Simple and complex restartsdiffer in length and in parts of speech either repeated or rephrased. Theshould be viewed

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hesitation phenomena, restarts, simple restarts, complex restarts, new information