33.1565, Diss: Arabic, Tunisian; Semitic; Psycholinguistics: Nadia Hamrouni: ''Structure and Processing in Tunisian Arabic: Speech Error Data''

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Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 15:46:20
From: Nadia Hamrouni [nadia.hamrouni at fshst.u-tunis.tn]
Subject: Structure and Processing in Tunisian Arabic: Speech Error Data

 
Institution: University of Arizona 
Program: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2010 

Author: Nadia Hamrouni

Dissertation Title: Structure and Processing in Tunisian Arabic: Speech Error
Data 

Dissertation URL:  https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/195969

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Tunisian (aeb)

Language Family(ies): Semitic


Dissertation Director(s):
Samira Farwaneh
Kenneth Forster
Merrill F Garrett
Adam Ussishkin

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation presents experimental research on speech errors in Tunisian
Arabic (TA). The central empirical questions revolve around properties of
èxchange errors'. These errors can mis-order lexical, morphological, or sound
elements in a variety of patterns. TA's nonconcatenative morphology shows
interesting interactions of phrasal and lexical constraints with morphological
structure during language production and affords different and revealing error
potentials linking the production system with linguistic knowledge. The
dissertation studies expand and test generalizations based on Abd-El-Jawad and
Abu-Salim's (1987) study of spontaneous speech errors in Jordanian Arabic by
experimentally examining apparent regularities in data from real-time language
processing perspective. The studies address alternative accounts of error
phenomena that have figured prominently in accounts of production processing.
Three experiments were designed and conducted based on an error elicitation
paradigm used by Ferreira and Humphreys (2001). Experiment 1 tested
within-phrase exchange errors focused on root versus non-root exchanges and
lexical versus non-lexical outcomes for root and non-root errors. Experiments
2 and 3 addressed between-phrase exchange errors focused on violations of the
Grammatical Category Constraint (GCC). The study of exchange potentials for
the within-phrase items (experiment 1) contrasted lexical and non-lexical
outcomes. The expectation was that these would include a significant number of
root exchanges and that the lexical status of the resulting forms would not
preclude error. Results show that root and vocalic pattern exchanges were very
rare and that word forms rather than root forms were the dominant influence in
the experimental performance. On the other hand, the study of exchange errors
across phrasal boundaries of items that do or do not correspond in grammatical
category (experiments 2 and 3) pursued two principal questions, one concerning
the error rate and the second concerning the error elements. The expectation
was that the errors predominantly come from grammatical category matches. That
outcome would reinforce the interpretation that processing operations reflect
the assignment of syntactically labeled elements to their location in phrasal
structures. Results corroborated with the expectation. However, exchange
errors involving words of different grammatical categories were also frequent.
This has implications for speech monitoring models and the automaticity of the
GCC.




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