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Publication Date: 2015-Apr
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Acoustic Evidence for Phonologically Mismatched Speech Errors
Gormley, Andrea
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v44 n2 p105-117 Apr 2015
Speech errors are generally said to accommodate to their new phonological context. This accommodation has been validated by several transcription studies. The transcription methodology is not the best choice for detecting errors at this level, however, as this type of error can be difficult to perceive. This paper presents an acoustic analysis of speech errors that uncovers non-accommodated or mismatch errors. A mismatch error is a sub-phonemic error that results in an incorrect surface phonology. This type of error could arise during the processing of phonological rules or they could be made at the motor level of implementation. The results of this work have important implications for both experimental and theoretical research. For experimentalists, it validates the tools used for error induction and the acoustic determination of errors free of the perceptual bias. For theorists, this methodology can be used to test the nature of the processes proposed in language production.
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Impairments, Error Patterns, Phonology, Acoustics, Error Analysis (Language)
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