@article {338,
	title = {Modified repeats: one method for asserting primary rights from second position},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen},
	address = {Nijmegen, The Netherlands},
	abstract = {<p>This presentation examines one practice speakers have for confirming when confirmation was not otherwise relevant. The data are a collection taken from video and audio recordings of spontaneous face-to-face and telephone conversations between family members and friends. The practice I analyze here involves a speaker repeating an assertion previously made by another speaker in modified form with stress on the copula/auxiliary. It is argued that these modified repeats work to undermine the first speaker{\textquoteright}s default ownership and rights over the claim being made and instead assert the primacy of the second speaker{\textquoteright}s rights to make the statement.</p>

<p>Two types of modified repeats are identified: partial and full. Though both involve competing for primacy of the claim, they occur in distinct sequential environments: the former are generally positioned after a first claim was epistemically downgraded whereas the latter are positioned following initial claims that were offered straightforwardly, without downgrading.</p>
},
	author = {Tanya Stivers}
}
