Institute of Language, Literature and History, Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected] ABSTRACT Introduction: the paper deals with the description of word break as a type of speech failure in spontaneous Komi speech. The types of correction of a broken word are analyzed taking into account the following parameters: the presence / absence of isomorphism, the linear and structural range between the broken word and the corrected correlate, the volume of a word fragment, the frequency of the breakage. Objective: to identify and describe the peculiarities of word break in spontaneous Komi speech and ways to overcome it. Research materials: audio and video recordings contained in the Komi media library of the Interregional Laboratory of Information Support for the Functioning of Finno-Ugric Languages, as well as fragments of conversations of participants in programs shown in the Komi Republican television channel “Yurgan”. Results and novelty of the research: the paper is the first to analyze word breaks in spontaneous Komi speech. It has been established that a word fragment can be repeated, changed or canceled more often within one predication. It has been revealed that contact corrections predominate in speech, in which a full-meaning word follows directly after a rejected fragment; less often, lexical markers of hesitation and words with a propositional meaning are inserted between them. As part of a phrase, one word is usually broken, and the break often occurs once. A specific feature of spontaneous Komi speech is the double correction of broken words: a fragment in one language can be corrected in the same or another language. Multilingual replacement of word fragments is typical for the speech of bilinguals who are fluent in Komi and Russian. A non-trivial correction is one in which only the suffix is corrected without repeating the full-valued word. Key words: oral speech, speech failures, hesitation, self-correction of the speaker, word break, bilingualism, the Komi language Acknowledgements: the publication was prepared within the framework of the planned topic of the research work of the Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Federal Research Centre, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Permian languages in the linguo-cultural space of the European North and the Urals” (reg. No. 121042600252-7). For citation: Nekrasova G. A. Word break in spontaneous Komi speech // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (1/56): 61–68.