Asymmetries in Speech Errors and their Implications for Underspecification

In speech production research, speech errors have long been appealed to in evaluating the psychological reality of linguistic units. The systematic nature of errors with respect to their occurrence and distribution (cf. for instance Fromkin, 1971; Shattuck-Hufnagel & Klatt, 1979; Dell, 1986; Stemberger, 1991a) allows us to assume that those units that appear to behave independently in speech errors are presumably at least at some point units of processing. More specifically, it has been proposed that the asymmetric distribution of single segment errors involving coronals provides evidence for their underspecification (Stemberger, 1991a; Stemberger & Stoel-Gammon, 1991).

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