Acoustic correlates of prosodic marking in spontaneous self-repair in Dutch

This paper reports on a phonetic analysis of instances of lexical and phonological self-repair sampled from Dutch spontaneous speech. The focus is on the relationship between f0, intensity and articulation rate characteristics of the repairs on the one hand, and their perceived status as ‘prosodically marked’ or ‘unmarked’ on the other. The concept of prosodic marking was first introduced in psycholinguistic work on self-repair, and its phonetic correlates have remained unclear, although available descriptions suggest they may be different from those of other forms of prominence marking, in particular ‘hyper-articulation’. This paper confirms that prosodic marking in self-repair is a form of prominence marking whose phonetic features warrant its distinctive label.