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The representation of phonological information during speech production planning:evidence from vowel errors in spontaneous speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel*
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract

A corpus of more than 500 speech errors that involve a vowel or syllabic nucleus is examined for evidence that bears on the nature of the processing representation that is in force when such errors occur. Evidence is obtained from the patterns of similarity between target segments and the intrusion segments that replace them in errors, on the assumption that target– intrusion similarity arises from characteristics of the processing representation. Findings include (1) a distinctive feature similarity between vowel targets and intrusions, (2) evidence that complex syllabic nuclei can function as error units and (3) evidence that vowel errors are constrained by lexical stress. Finally, the error patterns in both vowels and consonants, and the processing representations they suggest, are evaluated in the light of recent theoretical proposals about the phonological component of the grammar.

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Phonology , Volume 3 , May 1986 , pp. 117 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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