[Xmca-l] Re: Repair in inner speech

[Huw Lloyd]

Assuming that inner speech lacks any necessity to resolve ambiguity in the
use of words, because it emphasises particular meanings, there would not be
a requirement to repair ambiguity. Although if one's inner speech was about
the intention to declare something, then I suppose that intended
declaration might be subject to 'repair' and considered part of the inner
speech. But that would constitute a difference in logical type despite
being "part of" the inner speech, hence concurring with Peter's
description. By repair I assume you are referring to change in how a
meaning is expressed rather than a change in the intended meaning.

Huw

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 23:31, Peter Feigenbaum [Staff] <
pfeigenbaum@fordham.edu> wrote:

> Henry,
>
> In a paper I co-authored on private speech produced in the context of a
> referential communication task (see attached), we found evidence of a child
> that interrupted his own social speech to another child when he needed to
> stop and think about the meaning of a particular word he wanted to use -
> and that that interruption took the form of a private speech communication
> aimed at solving the problem. Once the child solved the word-meaning
> problem, he returned to the social speech utterance he had interrupted and
> completed it. To the extent that private speech is identical to inner
> speech in function (but not form), this piece of evidence suggests that
> inner speech can indeed interrupt social speech when thinking is required.
> Such an interruption would appear externally as a 'thinking' pause in
> social speech.
>
> I have frequently observed similar breaks and shifts in private speech
> conversation, suggesting that the flow of thought and speech is being
> interrupted and re-directed. And if private speech is inner speech
> (differing only in the fact that it is vocalized and not sub-vocalized),
> then there is every reason to believe that inner speech conversation also
> breaks and shifts topic.
>
> I don't know if that qualifies as *repair*, but the possibility is
> certainly consistent with the notion that conversation - whether social,
> private, or inner - can entail repairs.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:14 PM HENRY SHONERD <hshonerd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For my doctoral dissertation on the developmemt of fluency in a second
>> language, finished more than three decades ago, I found a lot data on
>> self-repair. I was surprised today by something I never really thought of
>> before: Is there self-repair in inner speech? (whether it be in a first or
>> second). I found this on the internet:
>>
>> "Levelt (1983) found that errors were often interrupted very quickly,
>> even at mid-segment. The implication of such quick interruptions was that
>> the speaker could not have detected the error while attending to his overt
>> speech. Thus, Levelt (1983, 1989) proposed that speakers monitor their
>> inner speech. According to what is known as the ‘main interruption rule’,
>> when an error is detected, whether internally or auditorily, speech is
>> immediately interrupted (Nooteboom, 1980; Levelt, 1983). This means that
>> short error-to-cut-off intervals are to be expected.
>> "Thus in an incremental model of speech production such as Levelt’s,
>> error-detection is followed by the decision to interrupt speech. This in
>> turn is followed by the planning of the repair (repair- planning), which is
>> thought to take place only upon interruption. If this is true, then short
>> cut-off-to- repair intervals should not be anticipated. This is contrary to
>> the short cut-off-to-repair intervals found by Blackmer and Mitton (1991),
>> suggesting that repair-planning must have occurred before speech was
>> interrupted. The question then remains as to when repair-planning is
>> initiated.” (Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs”, Peter Heeman and
>> James Allen, 1994.)
>>
>> My question for anybody out there is this: Is there research on repair in
>> inner speech in the CHAT universe?
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
>>
>
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