I am working on a paper in Conversation Analysis, titled “Toddlers asking Amazon Echo Alexa to play the song baby shark”
When analyzing the data i faced this issue of (when toddlers ask Alexa to play the song, and Alexa doesn’t respond to them, or doesn’t process their words correctly; due to their bad articulation,, what they do is repeat themselves again with the same exact words)
Is that considered repair or confirmation.
Videos‘ links are below for better understanding.
https://youtu.be/Bkpq7NlvrL8
https://youtu.be/JzfBedGaIjU
I think the question should be by whom it is treated as a repair or confirmation. Maybe you could describe it as recycling or simple self repeat?
Both would be seen as interaction and negotiation of meaning. if just simple repetition without variation or alteration, then it would be probably seen as simple recycling.
If they repeat themselves only or more often after Alexa's non- or wrong response, I would consider it an attempted repair. The first video clip shows a variety of both repairs and confirmations IMO. The girl frequently says 'Yeah' as a confirmation, but almost all of what I hear and see in both videos are attempted repairs. Some are way more clear than others, as when volume or annunciation changes. Although toddlers are not bad at inferring why a conversational partner doesn't respond appropriately, they are far from skilled & not infer that the partner doesn't process the pronunciation appropriately.
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