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Monitoring for speech errors has different functions in inner and overt speech
Abstract
In this paper it is argued that monitoring for speech errors is not the same in inner speech and in overt speech. In inner speech it is meant to prevent the errors from becoming public, in overt speech to repair the damage caused by the errors. It is expected that in inner speech, but not in overt speech, more nonword errors are detected than real-word ones, and that overt repairs of errors detected in inner speech differ from overt repairs of errors detected in overt speech in that they have shorter offset-to-repair times, are spoken with raised instead of lowered intensity and pitch, and are less often accompanied by editing expressions. These hypotheses are tested against a collection of experimentally elicited spoonerisms and a collection of speech errors in spontaneous Dutch. The hypotheses are basically confirmed.
Abstract
In this paper it is argued that monitoring for speech errors is not the same in inner speech and in overt speech. In inner speech it is meant to prevent the errors from becoming public, in overt speech to repair the damage caused by the errors. It is expected that in inner speech, but not in overt speech, more nonword errors are detected than real-word ones, and that overt repairs of errors detected in inner speech differ from overt repairs of errors detected in overt speech in that they have shorter offset-to-repair times, are spoken with raised instead of lowered intensity and pitch, and are less often accompanied by editing expressions. These hypotheses are tested against a collection of experimentally elicited spoonerisms and a collection of speech errors in spontaneous Dutch. The hypotheses are basically confirmed.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- The linguistics enterprise 1
- Scope ambiguities through the mirror 11
- Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition 55
- Restructuring head and argument in West-Germanic 79
- Scope assignment in child language 99
- The learnability of A-bar chains 115
- Looking at anaphora 141
- Incremental discourse processing 167
- Theoretical validity and psychological reality of the grammatical code 183
- Monitoring for speech errors has different functions in inner and overt speech 213
- What’s in a quantifier? 235
- Minimal versus not so minimal pronouns 257
- Against partitioned readings of reciprocals 283
- The representation and processing of fixed and compositional expressions 291
- Clitic doubling in Spanish 315
- Metalinguistic processing and acquisition within the MOGUL framework 327
- Catching heffalumps 345
- Index 377
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- The linguistics enterprise 1
- Scope ambiguities through the mirror 11
- Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition 55
- Restructuring head and argument in West-Germanic 79
- Scope assignment in child language 99
- The learnability of A-bar chains 115
- Looking at anaphora 141
- Incremental discourse processing 167
- Theoretical validity and psychological reality of the grammatical code 183
- Monitoring for speech errors has different functions in inner and overt speech 213
- What’s in a quantifier? 235
- Minimal versus not so minimal pronouns 257
- Against partitioned readings of reciprocals 283
- The representation and processing of fixed and compositional expressions 291
- Clitic doubling in Spanish 315
- Metalinguistic processing and acquisition within the MOGUL framework 327
- Catching heffalumps 345
- Index 377
