Various breaks, irregularities, or non-lexical vocables that occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech, including:
- false starts, i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid-utterance, phrases that are restarted or repeated and repeated syllables,
- fillers i.e. grunts or non-lexical utterances such as “uh”, “erm” and “well”, and
- repaired utterances, i.e. instances of speakers correcting their own slips of the tongue or mispronunciations (before anyone else gets a chance to).
