Repetition-hesitation and repetition-correction in Russian speech of foreigners

The article subject is the description and typology of such frequency phenomena of oral speech as repetitions, which arise in the speaker’s speech unintentionally, as a result of hesitation or choosing the necessary language unit or, if necessary, correction of the mistake. Two types of repetitions peculiar exclusively for oral speech are reviewed: repetition-hesitation and repetition-correction. The material for the study includes 22 oral monologues in Russian, which were recorded from speakers of three foreign languages - French, Dutch and Italian. All informants told a story on a given topic: “Your impressions of St. Petersburg”. The paper proposes a number of criteria for building a typology of such repetitions: 1) what exactly is repeated (repetition of a word or a fragment of a phrase - for both types of repetitions; 2) the nature of correction - correct or incorrect (anti-correction); 3) the time of introduction of correction into the text (online or offline). This analysis could expand the knowledge about hesitation phenomena in interfering oral speech and, in general, about the specifics of constructing a monologue in a non-native language.