This thesis investigates the interrelationship of phonetic structure and sequence organization in talk-in-interaction. It integrates the methodology of Conversation Analysis and impressionistic and instrumental phonetics to show how activities in a conversation are managed and oriented to by the participants. The study examines the phonetic characteristics of repetition in other-initiated repair sequences. Phonetic analysis of the repairs contradicts both published accounts of the phonetic correlates of clear speech, and descriptions of the phonetics of repetitions; instead, the...