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Conversational repairs used by children in Brown's Stages III and V and by 5- to 6-year-olds were investigated. A linguistic analysis revealed that each group repaired their utterances when not understood but did so using different repair types. Individual preferences for using a specific repair type was observed, although preferences decreased with age.
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Konefal, J.A., Fokes, J. Linguistic analysis of children's conversational repairs. J Psycholinguist Res 13, 1–11 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067899
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