Abstract: This study explores what repairs in the spontaneous production of speech reveal about the psycholinguistic processes of self-monitoring and self-repair. Three intervals were examined: error-to-cut off; cut off-to-repair; error-to-repair. The intervals indicate support theories of internal speech monitoring, and also indicate that the planning of speech-repairs can take place pre-articulatorily as well [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Key words: error-detection, Perceptual Loop Theory, self-monitoring, speech production, self-repairs.
Self-repairs are self-initiated corrections of one's own speech within the same speaking turn (Postma, 2000; Schegloff, Jefferson, & …