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Repair sequences in dysarthric conversational speech: a study in interactional phonetics
1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA. benjaminrutter@ouhsc.edu
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
|December 17, 2009
Summary
Dysarthric speakers often face communication challenges, but conversational repairs are usually successful. Partners actively help signal and resolve speech issues, making repairs collaborative achievements.
Area of Science:
- Conversation Analysis
- Clinical Linguistics
- Speech Pathology
Background:
- Investigates conversational repair mechanisms in individuals with dysarthria.
- Employs interactional phonetics to analyze turn design, sequence organization, and phonetic variation.
- Focuses on segmental and prosodic variations during repair attempts of trouble sources.
Observation:
- Trouble sources are frequent in conversations involving a dysarthric speaker.
- Repair attempts are predominantly communicatively successful.
- Repair sequences are frequently collaborative achievements, involving partner support.
Findings:
- Conversational partners actively signal trouble sources and provide feedback on repair attempts.
- Successful repairs are not limited to simple repetitions but involve variations in other linguistic areas.
- Collaborative efforts significantly contribute to the success of intelligibility repairs.
Implications:
- Highlights the importance of interactional support in successful communication for dysarthric speakers.
- Suggests that intelligibility repairs are dynamic and context-dependent.
- Recommends integrating experimental and qualitative methods for comprehensive study of intelligibility repairs.
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