Apparent Anti-frequency Effects in Language Production: The Addition Bias and Phonological Underspecification  

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Stemberger, Joseph Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 2 (Apr. 1991), page 161-185.
Fulltext: 30_02_Stemberger.pdf (2.23MB)

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Speech errors are explored using an experimental task. It is shown that there are asymmetries between certain pairs of consonants: alveolar consonants are more often replaced by consonants of other places of articulation than vice versa; oral stops are more often replaced by consonants of other manners of articulation than vice versa; and voiceless consonants are more often replaced by voiced consonants than vice versa. In most instances, the higher error rate is on the phoneme of higher frequency. The same contrasts show a high proportion of exchange errors. Other contrasts show a greater error rate on the phoneme of lower frequency and a low proportion of exchange errors. It is argued that the data reflect two biases in language production: the Frequency Effect and the Addition Bias (which has been demonstrated with consonant clusters). The data argue for the psychological reality of the concept of underspecification from linguistic theory, which holds that some feature values of phonological segments are left blank in lexical representations and filled in later with default feature-filling rules.

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