... 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 ... problem of fragment identification. Rather, models for fragment identifica- tion might make use of initial phoneme distributions, in combination with information on fragment length and acoustic-phonetic ... Mitton, 1991). For our corpus, pause fillers or cue words, which have been hypothesized as repair cues, occur within the DI for only 9.8% (332/368) of repairs, and so cannot be relied on for repair...