Temporal characteristics of lexical error and appropriateness repairs in spontaneous Dutch speech

This paper presents a phonetic analysis of lexical repairs taken from a corpus of spontaneous Dutch speech. The analysis focuses on the temporal relationship between the reparandum and repair components. Two predictors are tested, alongside several control variables: the pragmatic type of repair (error or appropriateness) and the structural type (interrupted or completed). Results suggest that pragmatic type has no consistent effect on the temporal organization of repairs, while structural type has some effect. Moreover, a significant effect is found for a measure of the relative phonological complexity of the reparandum and repair.