Prosodic marking, pitch and intensity in spontaneous phonological self-repair in Dutch

We report on a phonetic analysis of instances of spontaneous phonological error repair sampled from Dutch spontaneous speech. We investigate whether phonological error repairs can be ‘prosodically marked’ and what factors constrain repair prosody. Previous studies of ‘prosodic marking’ in self-repair have suggested that while lexical error repairs are regularly realized with marked prosody, phonological error repairs are generally unmarked. Moreover, it has been asserted that the temporal organization of a repair has no bearing on its pitch and intensity characteristics. Our findings suggest that in fact, phonological error repairs are realized with prosodic marking as frequently, and through the same acoustic correlates as lexical repairs. We also show that repair timing is a significant predictor of prosodic marking judgments and f0 and intensity measurements.