title: Spoonish spanerisms: A lexical bias effect in Spanish.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. robert.hartsuiker@ugent.be
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hartsuiker
authors.forename: Inés
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Antón-Méndez
authors.forename: Bjorn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roelstraete
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: 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