“…( Results show that there is a clear preference for function word IRs (77%, N = 569), followed by lexical words (13%, N = 97), phrases (7%, N = 52), and utterances (3%, N = 19). The results are in line with previous studies on other languages which show that disfluencies manifested by repetitions occur mostly at the beginning of the phrases [1], [4], [22], [23] inter alli.…”