[Xmca-l] Re: Repair in inner speech

[Peter Feigenbaum [Staff]]

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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