Types of speech errors

Question 1

Speech errors involving word units

Answer 1

• Substitution
• Malapropism: similar phonologically but not meaning
• Blend
• Exchange

Question 2

Speech errors involving sound units

Answer 2

• Anticipation
• Perseveration: repeated
• Exchange
• Deletion
• Addition

Question 3

Speech errors involving morpheme units

Answer 3

• Substitution
• Exchange
• Displacement
• Deletion
• Addition

Question 4

Speech errors involving sound features

Answer 4

• Voicing reversal: voiceless feature for a voiced
• Voiceless reversal: voiced feature for a voiceless
• Nasality reversal: nasal feature for the other nasal version