Repetition to place information in common ground, reformulation, Embedded correction
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Repetition has multiple functions in conversation [1]. One pervasive use, for example, is when a speaker adds to common ground new information offered by another.
"As an example in child-adult interaction, some adult repetitions are characterized as ‘reformulations’. These are repetitions of erroneous child utterances in which adult speakers have corrected the child errors, underlined, as in example (1)"[1]:
Example(1)[1]:
-Child: Don ’t fall me downstairs!
-Parent: oh, I wouldn't drop you downstairs.
-Child: Don ’t drop me downstairs.
"Adults also make some embedded corrections, as in Example (2), where the correction of the erroneous form is (fell) offered in the next turn by the father"[1]:
Example (2)-->(Embedded correction) [1]:
-Child: He falled, he falled again.
-Father: Ok he fell, but no, he’s at the boat, now put him in front of the car