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. 2015 Jan;46(1):30–43. doi: 10.1044/2014_LSHSS-14-0010

Table 1.

Identification and examples of the types of disfluencies considered to be mazes (Bedore et al., 2006).

Maze type Description Examples
Lexical revision Correction of overt word choice errors, to add or delete lexical information His (frog) dog also came along.
(La rana mayor) la rana bebé.
Grammatical revision Correction of overt grammatical errors He was wearing the jar (in) on his head.
La rana (brincaron) brincó.
Phonological revision Correction of phonological errors Squeak went the (saxolone) saxophone.
No le (agad*) agradó mucho.
Filled pause Nonlinguistic vocalizations that occur at the beginning of utterances or between words (Um) what is this?
La rana trató de (ah) tomar la leche.
Repetition Sound, part-word, whole-word, or phrase repetition And (they) they were looking.
El búho (lo) lo persiguió.