In my thesis I have presented rudimentary theoretical characteristics of spontaneously spoken texts. When they speak spontaneously, the speakers are unprepared, which results in many interruptions of the flow of the speech. In spontaneous speech, the unveiling of the paradigmatic axis is quite common, which is the result of the speaker’s on the fly decision-making regarding the choice of linguistic units that are the most suitable to convey certain information. Because the speakers do not prepare their speech, there are various abandoned structures that the speaker does not finish right away. In most cases, the speaker goes back on the syntagmatic axis and returns to the structure after the addition of information they deem necessary and suitable, and then completes the abandoned structure. Comments are phrases that stop the flow of the speech. The speaker uses these structures to explain the circumstances of the event they are describing or to express doubt about the correctness or suitability of the use of a word or phrase. Spontaneous speech is furthermore characterised by attributive adjectives that follow the headword or are detached from the headword they modify. In the second part of my thesis, I have analysed the speech of three speakers of different age groups, but the same dialectal belonging. First, I recorded their speech, and then I made an orthographic transcription of the recordings. While making the transcription, I abode by the basic rules and principles for orthographically transcribing speech. In my analysis, I focused on the tempo of speech. Furthermore, I analysed the effect of the tempo of speech on the frequency of stoppages of the speech flow. I analysed the use of comments in the speech of the three speakers, I also focused on the use of speech connectors, in most cases particles, and how these words influenced the speech of the three speakers.
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