Speech errors

Syntactic agreement attraction reflects short-term memory processes

Does producing syntactic agreement rely on syntactic or memory-based retrieval processes? The present study investigated the extent to which syntactic processing deficits and working memory (WM) deficits predict susceptibility to agreement attraction …

To err is human; to structurally prime from errors is also human

Natural language contains disfluencies and errors. Do listeners simply discard information that was clearly produced in error, or can erroneous material persist to affect subsequent processing? Two experiments explored this question using a …

Exchanging elicits: Stem-exchange errors and syntactic category shifts

Pronoun production: Word or world knowledge?

Number agreement and grammatical gender agreement are susceptible to attraction, where characteristics of other sentence elements lead to agreement errors. Previous evidence and theories suggest that attraction happens as a syntactic or lexical …

Halting in single word production: A test of the perceptual loop theory of speech monitoring

The perceptual loop theory of speech monitoring (Levelt, 1983) claims that inner and overt speech are monitored by the comprehension system, which detects errors by comparing the comprehension of formulated utterances to originally intended …