volume: 3 (1998)
pages: 43–68
author: Judit Kormos
title: A new psycholinguistic taxonomy of self-repairs in L2: A qualitative analysis with retrospection
abstract: On the basis of a retrospective study conducted with 30 Hungarian speakers of English of varying levels of proficiency the paper aims at devising a new comprehensive psycholinguistic taxonomy of self-repairs. On the basis of the results of the research, it is argued that certain modifications are needed in Levelt’s (1983) taxonomy so that it could be applied for the analysis of repairs in L2. The paper further specifies the categories of different information and appropriate level of information repairs and aims at providing a more precise definition of the various subtypes of error repairs. It is proposed that psycholinguistically more accurate results could be obtained in both L1 and L2 self-repair research if error repairs were not classified on the basis of the surface representation of the reparandum, but according to the location of the lapse in the speech processing phase. In addition, the paper identifies a new category of self-corrections: rephrasing repair, which is employed when the speaker is uncertain about the correctness of the utterances and rephrases parts of his/her original message.
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