Midspeech
Midspeech is a term in linguistics describing a phenomenon in which a speaker continues an utterance across a clause boundary, incorporating a pivot, revision, or topic shift without a full stop. It highlights how real-time discourse often flows through mid-utterance recalibrations rather than strictly following sentence boundaries.
Common markers of midspeech include mid-clause insertions (for example, parenthetical rephrasings such as “that is” or
Observed in casual conversation, broadcast speech, and public speaking, midspeech supports coherence and engagement by allowing
See also: disfluency, discourse marker, prosody, turn-taking, speech repair.