This paper reports statistical data on the use of syntactically and prosodically defined variables in speech repairs in Mandarin Chinese. These variables include structural types of Chinese repairs, their part of speech distribution and their syllabic characteristics regarding the retracing distance. With respect to the prosodic features of Chinese repairs, results on articulation rate of the overall data and the repair data are presented as well as a durational analysis of the reparandum and the alteration of frequent words. Pitch value, amplitude and duration are analyzed on the beginning positions of the to-be-corrected, the corrected, the to-be-repeated and the repeated words. Among the findings are a number of significant results in terms of the syntactic and prosodic variables within the re-initiation process of Chinese repairs and their relationship to intonation units.