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A-Z 933C’s turn is more complex in its structure because of the excuse, the delay (or significantpause, interruption), and the reasoning. Furthermore, preferred and non-preferredoptions differ in their position within the turn: the preferred option is realized early whilethe non-preferred option is realized late. For a different point of view on suchinterchanges, cf. remedial interchange.ReferencesAtkinson, J.M. and J.Heritage (eds) 1984. Structures of social action. Part II: Preferenceorganization. Cambridge. 57–164.Pomerantz, A. 1978. Compliment responses. In J. Schenkein (ed.), Studies in the organization ofconversation. New York. 79–112.Schegloff, E., G.Jefferson, and H.Sacks. 1977. The preference for self-correction in theorganization of repair in conversation. Lg 53. 361–82.maxim of conversation, repair. sequential organizationprefixA subclass of bound word-forming elements that precede the stem. Unlike suffixes,which are generally associated with a particular word class and create new words of thatclass (e.g. -er derives nouns from verbs, cf. swimmer), prefixes cannot be associated witha fixed category and tend to attach to one of two larger categories: verbs (be-, de-, dis-,en-, mis-, re-, under-, and so on) and substantives (i.e. nouns and adjectives) (in-, non-,un-, and so on), always producing verbs and substantives respectively (cf. misrepresent,unwise). Lexemes are transformed into words of various classes through the processes ofconversion 2 and derivation. The question of whether nominal and adjectival bases areverbalized by the prefix (encage