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In this study we investigate segmental prolongation (PR) as a form of disfluent hesitation in a corpus of spontaneous Romanian monologues. A total of 3541 PRs were extracted from 216 minutes of speech pertaining to 4 native speakers (2 female, 2 male). In line with the methodology employed by previous corpus-studies on PR, our data reveal that prolonged segments have an average duration of 316ms (sd = 130), surfacing at a frequency of 11.3 per 100 words and following a 17–7–76% position distribution. In Romanian, all segments can undergo PR, with vowels being the preferred target (57.2%), followed by fricatives (12.8%), nasals (11.8%), plosives (10.3%), diphthongs (5.5%), affricates (1.6%) and laterals (0.8%). The vast majority of PRs surface in monosyllabic words (59%). Function words are prolonged in 57% of the cases. By including data from a lesser-studied European language, this paper broadens our understanding of the formal regularities of PR in a cross-linguistic setting.