A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Morphological self-repair: Self-repair within the word
Authors: Barbara A. Fox, Fay Wouk, Steven Fincke, Wilfredo Hernandez Flores, Makoto Hayashi, Minna Laakso, Yael Maschler, Abolghasem Mehrabi, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Susanne Uhmann, Hyun Jung Yang
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Publication year: 2017
Journal: Studies in Language
Volume: 41
Issue: 3
First page : 638
Last page: 659
Number of pages: 22
ISSN: 0378-4177
eISSN: 1569-9978
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.3.04fox
In this study we explore patterns of same-turn self-repair within the word, across ten typologically and areally diverse languages. We find universal processes emerging through language-specific resources, namely: recycling is used to delay a next item due, while replacement is used to replace an inappropriate item. For example, most of our languages with prefixes or proclitics recycle those elements to delay production of the root/host, while languages with suffixes tend not to recycle just suffixes without their roots/hosts, since that would not serve to delay the production of the root/host; rather, the whole word is recycled. Replacement of affixes and clitics is rare, regardless of position. We provide several possible explanations for these facts, all based on the nature of replacement.