Lecture 17: Language Production Flashcards

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Speech errors can occur at the ______ or the ______ level.

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Word

Subword

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What do language mistakes give us insight into?

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The process by which we produce language

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What are the 6 types of subword errors?

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Shift

Exhange

Anticipations

Preservations

Additions

Deletions

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What is a shift?

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One speech segment shifts to another place

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What are the two kinds of shifts?

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Phoneme Shift

Morpheme shift

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What is a Phoneme Shift?

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You put a phoneme in the wrong place

Chubbly dumpings (Chubby dumplings)
Put the gobe black (globe back)
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What is a Morpheme shift?

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You put a morpheme in the wrong place

Put your hand on your heads
Did you finish wash outing it?
We’re not the only ones with screw looses
I had forgot abouten it.

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What are exchanges?

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Two units exchange places

Also called Spoonerisms

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What is a Phoneme Exchange?

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You switch phonemes

Don’t fake your schinger at me!
Smuck in the tid (Stick in the mud)

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What are Phoneme Anticipations?

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A later unit takes the place of an earlier on

I am tick (sick) and tired
Did you get the moiter oil

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What are Phoneme Preservations?

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An earlier unit takes place of a later one

Stupid stuperstition
Benign and balignant tumors

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Do phoneme exchanges, anticipations, and preservations reflect the complex motor planning involved in articulation?

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Yes

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Do tongue twisters often induce phoneme exchanges, anticipations, and preservations?

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Yes

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What are Phoneme/Morpheme Additions?

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Additional phonemes/morphemes

I have a stinking feeling
I feel like I could blurst

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What are Phoneme/Morpheme Deletions?

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Omitted phonemes/morphemes

I’m not dunk! (drink)
Give me a pacific answer (specific)

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Are speech errors random or do they occur in regular patterns?

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In regular patterns

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In speech errors, do phoneme positions tend to stay consistent?

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Yes

shu flots (flu shots)

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In speech errors, do elements being exchanged tend to be similar?

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Yes

consonant -> consonant: turfey stukking (turkey stuffing)

vowel -> vowel: odd hack (ad hoc)

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In speech errors, are nonword slips consistant with phonotactics?

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Yes

Stubstituion (substitution)
Scheduled an elexcution (execution)

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What are the 6 different type of Word Level Errors?

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Exchanges

Deletions

Perseverations

Anticipations

Substitutions

Blends

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What is a Word Exchange?

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It’s a pleasue for you to introduce me

Wash your teeth and brush your face

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What is a Word Deletion?

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You always late

Hey! Can you feed dog?

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What are Word Perseverations?

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Repeating a previous word

No one except the developer excepted (accepted)

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What is Word Anticipation?

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Using an upcoming word

Did you wash the car wash? (watch)
Would you would say goodbye without saying goodbye?

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What are Word Substitutions?

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A word is replaced by an intruder

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What are Semantic Substitutions?

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The intruder is semantically related

This is my sister…I mean my wife
Were you alone or by yourself?

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What are Phonological Substitutions?

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Intruder is phonologically related

Also called a malapropism

It’s a hysterical fact (historical)
What are you incinerating? (insinuating)

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What are Name Substitutions?

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When you accidently say the wrong name

Terry..er…Tom..er..Tabitha
So I was in bed talking to Tommy - I mean Ritchie! Oh $%&*@!
Call your current significant other by your ex’s name…..

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What are Blends?

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Words “fuse” together

If you dood that… (did + do)
We need moptimal productivity (maximal/optimal)

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In malapropisms, over ___% of the initial sounds and over ___% of word ending are identical or very similar to the target.

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80%

70%

30
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Do beginnings and ends of words have special status?

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Yes

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What is the Bathtub Effect?

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We tend to preserve the beginnings and ending of words more than the middle

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Do speech errors often preserve the word class of the target?

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Yes

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Do blends occur more with words that have similar meanings?

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Yes

34
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Do bilinguals often blend words from each of their languages (especially when switching between the two languages)?

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Yes

35
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What are Freudian Slips supposed to reveal?

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Our repressed thoughts/desires

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What do Freudian Slips supposedly arise from?

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Competing intentions

37
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In what conditions did Motley & Baars (1979) place participants in their word error experiment?

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Participants were placed in two conditions:

Shock conditions & sexual conditions

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What did Motley & Baars (1979) have participants do in their word error experiment?

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Subjects were asked to read a list of paired nonwords

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How did the shock conditioned participants respond in Motley & Baars’ (1979) word error experiment?

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They morphed the nonwords to reflect the “electrical” condition

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How did the sexually conditioned participants respond in Motley & Baars’ (1979) word error experiment?

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They morphed the nonwords to reflect the “sexual” condition

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How does the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning explain speech errors?

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Speech planning involves a series of stages

Thus speech problems reflect problems at a certain stage

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What is Stage 1 of the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning?

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Meaning is generated

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What is Stage 2 of the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning?

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You create the syntactic outline. Word slots are specified.

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What is Stage 3 of the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning?

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You generate the intonation/prosody of the message

Note: Still no words

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What is Stage 4 of the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning?

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Morphology 1

Content words are selected and inserted into slots

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What is Stage 5 of the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning?

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Morphology 2

Affixes (-ed, etc.) & Function words are added

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What is Stage 6 of the Serial Model of Linguistic Planning?

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Phonetic segments are specified

How the words sound

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What is the Parallel Model of Linguistic Planning?

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Multiple levels interact during language production

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What are the four nodes in the Parallel Model of Linguistic Planning?

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Semantic

Syntactic

Morphologic

Phonologic

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How does the Parallel Model of Linguistic Planning explain speech errors?

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Phonological connections

Semantic connections

Morphological connections

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What is the Phonological Bias Technique?

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Phonologically similar words induce errors

“Yolk” example

A alternate speech plan (rhyming words) causes interference

52
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What are Spoonerisms?

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Subword Exchanges

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What is a malapropism?

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Phonemic Substitution