... cues for repair processing. Discussion In this paper, we have presented a"speech-first" model, the Repair Interval Model, for studying repairs in spon- taneous speech. This model ... spontaneous speech pose serious prob- lems for spoken language systems. First, a speaker may produce a partial word or FRAGMENT, a string of phonemes that does not form the complete intended word. ... llWe also included utterance-final boundaries as data points. 12We used uniform measures for prediction, however, for both repair sites and fluent regions. utterance test set. This procedure...