The Phenomenon of Self-repair in Spanish and Portuguese

Since self-repair represents a phenomenon that has not been investigated for Spanish and Portuguese speaking natives in interactive contexts, this study is an attempt to approach the different forms of self-repair in these romance languages. The data to be qualitatively analysed are retrieved from the corpus programmes CORLEC and the Corpus do português. The study shows that the different forms of repair according to Levelt (1989), are more easily to be detected than the different types of speech error if following Cohen (1966).