ABSTRACT
Spoken language often contains incomplete utterances, false starts, repetitions and corrections. All such phenomena are classified as examples of maze behaviour. Mazes can be fragments or repetitions. An incompletely structure fragment occurs when a unit consists of one or more units of the rank below, but lacks one or more units that are essential to give it complete structural meaning. A nonsensical fragment occurs when a unit consists of one or more units of the rank below, but lacks either sufficient units or order to give it structural meaning. An immediate repetition occurs when two instances of the same item are found consecutively and the two instances are not a paratactic relation or in a hypo tactic relation. A non-immediate repetition occurs usually occurs either at the end of a clause where it echoes the subject.
