Asymmetries in speech errors and their implications for underspecification
- This paper follows a new perspective on speech errors within the framework of Articulatory Phonology, as proposed by Goldstein et al. (in prep.). On the basis of kinematic evidence, their work has demonstrated that speech errors are not restricted to categorical exchanges of position of segmental units, but rather gestures that compose segments can exhibit errors that vary from zero to maximal in magnitude. Here we report results from two perceptual experiments which use stimuli selected on the basis of their articulatory properties only, covering a range of errorful gestural activations. The outcome of the perceptual experiments suggests that different segments show different degrees of vulnerability to (subsegmental) speech errors: While listeners detected errors reliably for some segments, for other segments the reaction to errorful and non-errorful tokens was not distinct. The data suggest that at least for some error types an asymmetric error distribution arises due to perception, while production itself is not asymmetric. However, for error types involving segments whose gestural compositions stand in a subset relationship to each other (as described below), asymmetries may indeed originate in production due to the overall dominance of a gestural intrusion bias observed in the production data of Goldstein et al. (in prep.).
Author: | Marianne Pouplier, Louis Goldstein |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308918 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/199.html |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | Papers on phonetics and phonology : The articulation, acoustics and perception of consonants, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin; ZAS papers in linguistics ; Vol. 28 |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Versprecher; Sprachproduktion; Psycholinguistik; Sprachliches Merkmal |
Volume: | 34 |
Page Number: | 10 |
First Page: | 73 |
Last Page: | 82 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 385073909 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Psycholinguistik/Kognitive Linguistik / Psycholinguistics/Cognitive linguistics |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 28 = Papers on phonetics and phonology : The articulation, acoustics and perception of consonants |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306694 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |