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Karin Birkner/Sofie Henricson/Camilla Lindholm/Martin C. Pfeiffer
Retraction
Patterns
and Self-Repair in German and Swedish Prepositional Phrases
The
article presents the results of a German-Swedish comparative study on
retraction within prepositional phrases. Retraction, i.e. when a speaker
returns to an earlier point within an unfolding grammatical structure, is a
common resource used by both German and Swedish speakers e.g. to substitute,
delete, insert, or repeat parts of an utterance. However, this resource is
not necessarily used in the same way in German and Swedish. Typological
differences in the languages, such as word order and morphosyntactic
characteristics, can affect the pattern of retraction (cf. Fox/Maschler/
Uhmann 2009). The paper addresses the question whether grammatical
differences in German and Swedish affect the retraction patterns.
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