Spoonish spanerisms: A lexical bias effect in Spanish.
Lexical bias is the tendency for phonological errors to form existing words at a rate above chance. This effect has been observed in experiments and corpus analyses in Germanic languages, but S. del Viso, J. M. Igoa, and J. E. García-Albea (1991) found no effect in a Spanish corpus study. Because lexical bias plays an important role in the debate on interactivity in language production, the authors reconsidered its absence in Spanish. A corpus analysis, which considered relatively many errors and which used a method of estimating chance rate that is relatively independent of total error number, and a speech-error elicitation experiment provided converging evidence for lexical bias in Spanish. The authors conclude that the processing mechanisms underlying this effect hold cross-linguistically.
Hartsuiker
Robert J
RJ
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. robert.hartsuiker@ugent.be
Antón-Méndez
Inés
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Roelstraete
Bjorn
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Costa
Albert
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D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010700:Phonetics; D011336:Probability; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior