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The lexical bias effect in experimentally elicited Swedish phonological speech errors

Roskvist, Hanna LU (2025) ALSK13 20242
Division of Linguistics , Cognitive Semiotics and Rhetoric
General Linguistics
Abstract
The lexical bias effect refers to the tendency for phonological speech errors to have lexical rather than non-lexical outcomes. This effect has often been used as a piece of evidence in theories of speech production, informing assumptions about monitoring and spreading activation. However, the lexical bias effect is known only from investigations of a relatively small set of languages, and the findings have not always been conclusive. The aim of the current study is to investigate the presence of a lexical bias effect in Swedish phonological speech errors, which has not been done before. Errors were elicited by using a modified version of the SLIP-method (Baars et al. 1975). The errors elicited in the current study display a strong lexical... (More)
The lexical bias effect refers to the tendency for phonological speech errors to have lexical rather than non-lexical outcomes. This effect has often been used as a piece of evidence in theories of speech production, informing assumptions about monitoring and spreading activation. However, the lexical bias effect is known only from investigations of a relatively small set of languages, and the findings have not always been conclusive. The aim of the current study is to investigate the presence of a lexical bias effect in Swedish phonological speech errors, which has not been done before. Errors were elicited by using a modified version of the SLIP-method (Baars et al. 1975). The errors elicited in the current study display a strong lexical bias, further indicating that the effect is universal and not language-dependent. Furthermore, the errors displayed a phonetic similarity effect as well as a preference towards grammatical and meaningful error outcomes, revealing additional factors underlying speech errors and speech production in general. (Less)
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Roskvist, Hanna LU
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ALSK13 20242
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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English
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9199482
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  abstract     = {{The lexical bias effect refers to the tendency for phonological speech errors to have lexical rather than non-lexical outcomes. This effect has often been used as a piece of evidence in theories of speech production, informing assumptions about monitoring and spreading activation. However, the lexical bias effect is known only from investigations of a relatively small set of languages, and the findings have not always been conclusive. The aim of the current study is to investigate the presence of a lexical bias effect in Swedish phonological speech errors, which has not been done before. Errors were elicited by using a modified version of the SLIP-method (Baars et al. 1975). The errors elicited in the current study display a strong lexical bias, further indicating that the effect is universal and not language-dependent. Furthermore, the errors displayed a phonetic similarity effect as well as a preference towards grammatical and meaningful error outcomes, revealing additional factors underlying speech errors and speech production in general.}},
  author       = {{Roskvist, Hanna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The lexical bias effect in experimentally elicited Swedish phonological speech errors}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}