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ComprehensionSpeech perception: Perception of smallest units of speech on up
Lexical access: Finding the entry in memory
Word recognition: Getting meaning of individual words
Sentence understanding: Putting words together and extracting meaning
Discourse processing: Understanding connected sentences and deriving intent of speaker (as well as literal message)
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
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Production(Levelt, 1989)
Conceptualizing a message/thought
Formulating a linguistic plan
Articulating the plan
Monitoring the output
Levelt, W.J.M. 1989. Speaking: From Intention to Articulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cited in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 192.
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Spoonerisms
You have hissed my mystery lectures.
missed history
I saw you fight a liar in the back quad.
light fire
In fact, you have tasted the whole worm.
wasted term
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 193.
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Speech Error Types 1Shift
That's so she'll be ready in case she decide to hits it (decides to hit it).
Exchange
Fancy getting your model renosed (getting your nose remodeled).
Anticipation
Bake my bike (take my bike).
Perseveration
He pulled a pantrum (tantrum). Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 194.
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Speech Error Types 2
Addition
I didn't explain this clarefully enough (carefully enough).
Deletion
I'll just get up and mutter intelligibly (unintelligibly).
Substitution
At low speeds it's too light (heavy).
Blend
That child is looking to be spaddled (spanked/paddled).
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 194.
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Common Properties of Speech Errors - 1
1. "elements that interact with one another tend to come from similar linguistic environments" The little burst of beaden (beast of burden)
2. "elements that interact with one another tend to be similar to one another."
Sesame Street crackers (sesame seed crackers)
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Common Properties of Speech Errors - 2
3. "even when slips produce novel linguistic items, they are generally consistent with the phonological rules of the language"
4. "there are consistent stress patterns in speech errors"
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 194-195.
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Phonological Bias Technique 1(Baars, 1980)
ball doze
bash door
bean deck
bell dark
darn bore
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 201-202.
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Phonological Bias Technique 2(Baars, 1980)
big dutch
band doll
bill deal
bark dog
dart board
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 201-202.
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Motley's Biasing List
toy dog flat tire
could knock cold nuns nosey cooks red sky let david
leg dangle dead level
Motley, Michael T. Sept. 1985. Slips of the tongue. Scientific American 253(3): 116-127.
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Motley's Electric Shock/Sexual Anxiety Experiment
Threat of Electric Shock
sham dock damn shock
varied colts carried volts
worst cottage cursed wattage
Sexual Anxiety
past fashion fast passion
sappy hex happy sex
share boulders bared shoulders
Motley, Michael T. Sept. 1985. Slips of the tongue. Scientific American 253(3): 116-127.
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Stages of Production(Levelt, 1989)
1. Conceptualizing
2. Formulating
3. Articulating
4. Self-Monitoring
Carroll, David W. 1994. Psychology of Language, second edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 192.
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Fromkin's Model of Speech Production
Stage Process 1 Generate meaning to be conveyed 2 Select syntactic structure with word
slots specified 3 Generate intonation contour 4 Insert content words 5 Formulate affixes and function words 6 Specify phonetic segments
Victoria A. Fromkin. 1971. The non-anomalous nature of anomalous utterances. Language 47: 27-52. Cited in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 198.
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Accommodation
She's already bagged two packs
(packed two trunks)
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 198.
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Dell's Parallel Model of Linguistic Planning
1. Semantic
2. Syntactic
3. Morphological
4. Phonological [Including distinctive
features]
Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 203-204.
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Speech Rates and Error Rates
Speech rate:
Error frequencies are:
few/zero occasional (more)
Error types are:
real words real words NOT real words
Based on data in Carroll, David W. 1999. Psychology of Language, third edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 204.
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Incremental ProcessingA Rough Schematic
PLANNING vvv www xxxx yyy zzzz
SPEAKING vvv www xxxx yyy zzzz
(Spaces represent pauses)
Based in part on the discussion in Carroll, David W. 1994. Psychology of Language, second edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 208.
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Characteristic Structure of Self-Repairs
1. We interrupt ourselves
2. We utter some "editing expression" that signals (to some extent) what went wrong
3. We repair the utterance
Carroll, David W. 1994. Psychology of Language, second edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, p. 209.
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Editing Expressions - 1
I saw... uh ... 12 people at the party.(Trying to remember)
I saw... oh ... 12 people at the party.(Estimating)
Bill hit him—hit Sam, that is.("further specify a potentially ambiguous
referent")
Carroll, David W. 1994. Psychology of Language, second edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 211-212.
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Editing Expressions - 2
I am trying to lease, or rather, sublease, my apartment.
("nuance editing")
I really like to—I mean, hate to—get up in the morning.
("true errors")
Carroll, David W. 1994. Psychology of Language, second edition. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, pp. 211-212.