We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven
thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate …

There would be little adaptive value in a complex communication system like human
language if there were no ways to detect and correct problems. A systematic comparison of …

This special issue reports on a cross-linguistic study of other-initiated repair, a domain at the
crossroads of language, mind, and social life. Other-initiated repair is part of a system of …

In conversation, people have to deal with problems of speaking, hearing, and
understanding. We report on a cross-linguistic investigation of the conversational structure of …

The transitions between turns at talk in conversation tend to occur quickly, with only a slight
gap of∼ 100–300 ms between them. This estimate of central tendency, however, hides a …

A wealth of research has examined how different forms of language are used for requesting.
But language is not always necessary to make a request. Interaction rests for a good part on …

People across the world make requests every day. We constantly rely on others to get by in
the small and big practicalities of everyday life, be it getting the salt, moving a sofa, or …

OKAY has been termed 'a spectacular expression'and 'America's greatest invention.'This
volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global …

This article discusses the use of the Finnish change-of-state token aa that has previously not
been identified. The central claim is that even though aa indicates a cognitive shift …

We provide an annotated coding scheme for other-initiated repair, along with guidelines for
building collections and aggregating cases based on interactionally relevant similarities and …