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[Tom Wasow]

There's a lot of psycholinguistic research on "slips of the tongue". It is
largely concentrated on single words (or parts of words), rather than
larger grammatical units.  Probably the leading researchers in this area
are Gary Dell and the late Vicki Fromkin.  A very readable elementary
survey of this work (with a useful bibliography) is Dell's chapter
"Speaking and Misspeaking" in an anthology entitled "Language", edited by
Lila Gleitman and Mark Liberman, which is volume 1 of a 4-volume series
called "An Invitation to Cognitive Science" edited by Daniel Osherson.
It was published in 1995 by MIT Press.

Tom


On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, James A. Crippen wrote:

> Also recall that often common grammar mistakes (both written as well as
> spoken) can be very telling as to how grammar is processed mentally.  The
> way that certain parts of speech are transposed or inverted by accident in
> many cases by competent speakers is often a clue to how the brain is
> producing the utterance.  Or even more likely, a clue to the particular
> differences from the norm of an individual's linguistic capability.
>
> I'm sure such things have been studied in the past and provided
> signifigant contributions to theoretical structure.  Does anyone have a
> reference as an example of this sort of study?  I'd be interested in
> reading it...
>
> (If I haven't mentioned before I'm just an amateur self-taught 'lingiust'
> fascinated with the computational simplicity (as compared to certain other
> systems) of the HPSG formalism.  And let me take this moment to thank all
> of the researchers involved with HPSG for producing such an (IMHO)
> engaging and fascinating theoretical formalism.)
>
> 'james
>
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