Publications by authors named "Elizabeth Manrique"
Practices of other-initiated repair deal with problems of hearing or understanding what another person has said in the fast-moving turn-by-turn flow of conversation. As such, other-initiated repair plays a fundamental role in the maintenance of intersubjectivity in social interaction. This study finds and analyses a special type of other-initiated repair that is used in turn-by-turn conversation in a sign language: Argentine Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Argentina or LSA).
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- Human language has built-in mechanisms to detect and fix communication problems, highlighting its adaptive value in social interactions.
- A study across 12 languages shows that there's a universal system called 'other-initiated repair' where recipients can signal confusion and request clarification from the sender.
- This system operates similarly in unrelated languages, suggesting that while grammar may differ culturally, fundamental aspects of language use remain consistent globally, pointing to a cooperative nature of human communication.