Spoonerisms: The Structure of Errors in the Serial Order of Speech

MACKAY, DONALD G.

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“…Thus, as noted previously, many typographical errors can be attributed in part to slips of the tongue, but that only begs the question of why such slips occur. That question is presumably in the province of psycholinguists, and provocative accounts are available (e.g., Baars, 1980, 1992b; Dell & Reich, 1980; MacKay, 1970, 1973; Nooteboom, 1973; van den Broecke & Goldstein, 1980). It is worth noting that Fromkin (1973) found that vowels do not switch with consonants, that Laver (1980) has attributed vowel speech errors to neuromuscular processes, and that Wicklegren (1965) found that errors in short-term memory are related to phonetic similarity, especially with vowels.…”

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Errors in copy typewriting.

Logan¹

1999

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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An analysis of the errors made by a skilled female typist led to the identification of error factors that often act conjointly. Substitution errors indicated that she had acquired a cognitive map of the keyboard and then controlled her fingers by spelling the to-be-typed words covertly. Accordingly, some typographical errors were attributed in part to errors of inner speech. Intrusion errors revealed both habit factors and a response perseveration tendency. A handedness effect and omission errors indicated response error factors, and transpositions indicated temporal error factors. The skilled typist was thus viewed as having learned to inhibit error tendencies, and errors such as antedating response and doubling were interpreted in terms of disinhibition.At midcentury, Lashley (1951Lashley ( , 1961 published a seminal article concerning the serial order of behavior. Prior to that time, the generally accepted view was that of a behavior chain in which each response, in turn, produces feedback that serves as the cue for the next response (see, e.g., Hull, 1931;James, 1890;Washburn, 1916). Lashley (1951Lashley ( , 1961 marshaled a number of arguments against that view, at least for behaviors such as copy typewriting in which a finite set of responses can be emitted rapidly in a variety of orders. He concluded that skilled performance could be understood only in terms of a hierarchical system containing motor programs that enable a sequence of responses to be performed without the aid of feedback.For example, Lashley (1951) mentioned the doubling error, in which a wrong letter is doubled when typing a word containing a double letter (e.g., eeror). According to Lashley, "the set to repeat may be displaced ... the order is dissociated from the idea" (p. 118). This basic concept was captured by Rumelhart and Norman (1982) in a simulation of a skilled typist; in their model, the program contained a double schema that could be transposed as a result of noise leading to doubling the wrong letter. Although he was preceded by Fendrick (1937), Lashley (1951 set the stage for hierarchical theories of performance (e.g.,

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Errors in copy typewriting.

Logan¹

1999

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The Emergence of an Unmarkedness Effect in Mandarin Speech Errors: Nasals in a Coda Position

Hsu

2011

Lang Speech

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This study aims to explore how the markedness effect shapes Mandarin slips of the tongue with respect to nasals in syllable-final positions. Data were collected via natural speech and elicitation tasks from 35 participants' reading of 346 test items. Three hundred and eight slips in Mandarin from natural data and 360 slips from elicited data were investigated. This study shows that there exists a strong preference for unmarked coronal nasals over marked dorsal nasals in the syllable-final position in both spontaneous and elicited Mandarin slips. This tendency toward the unmarked [n] reveals that the influence of the unmarkedness effect is present in the coda position in Mandarin slips. Interestingly, this tendency is inconsistent with that found in a previous study by Wan of Mandarin slips in the onset position, which shows a tendency for coronals to be replaced by other sounds. This suggests an onset-coda distinction occurring in Mandarin speech errors, which implies that the markedness effect works differently in distinct syllable positions. More precisely, the unmarkedness effect emerges in the coda position in Mandarin slips, leading to the occurrence of unmarked segments, whereas it submerges in the onset position, resulting in marked segments.

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Spoonerisms: The Structure of Errors in the Serial Order of Speech

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Errors in copy typewriting.

Errors in copy typewriting.

The Emergence of an Unmarkedness Effect in Mandarin Speech Errors: Nasals in a Coda Position

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