There are, of course, cases of interrupted utterances which break off in the middle of a morpheme. If we cannot immediately recognize the special status of these utterances, we may include these broken morphemic segments among our elements. Later, we will find that statements true of other morphemes are not true of these, so that the interrupted morphemes will be treated as residues excluded from our regular description. In many cases, too, these residues will correlate with special contours (e.g. intonations of hesitation and interruption).
- Harris (1951), a pag.158, n.3