Recycling and replacement repairs as self-initiated same-turn self-repair strategies in Hungarian

The aim of this paper is to explore recycling and replacement repairs as self-initiated same-turn self-repair strategies in Hungarian. The study concentrates on four factors: repair operation types, syntactic class and length of the repaired segment, and site of initiation. In accordance with previous works focusing on the relationship between grammar and repair, the analysis shows that the main organizer of the self-repair process is the speaker's interactional aim. This interactional aim is realized in the interactional functions of repair operations: providing the speaker with extra time in the case of recycling repairs, or exchanging an unintended item in the case of replacement repairs. The working of these interactional functions, however, always adapts to the grammatical possibilities of the particular language. I have assumed that the ratio of early and late initiations in recycling repairs depends on the typical orders of function and content words in languages, i.e. the exploitability of the delaying function of function word recycling. While the recycling replacement ratio is likely to be approximately universally constant, within recycling repairs the ratio of early and late initiations depends on the morphosyntactic structures of languages. As in Hungarian function words usually precede their respective content words, recyclings tend to be initiated after recognizable completion.

► I explore recycling and replacement same-turn self-repairs in Hungarian.
► Hungarian speakers recycle back most frequently to monosyllabic function words.
► Hungarian speakers prefer multisyllabic content words in replacement repair.
► Recycling: late repair initiation, replacement: early repair initiation.
► I postulate a preference-hierarchy amongst the examined repair operations.