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Morphological errors in casual conversation.

Z S Bond1

  • 1Department of Linguistics, Ohio University, Athens 45701, USA.

Brain and Language
|August 6, 1999
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Listeners sometimes mishear casual speech due to perceptual errors, known as slips of the ear. These errors suggest listeners prioritize sound over word structure, often adding missing word endings.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Listeners occasionally misperceive spoken language, termed 'slips of the ear'.
  • These misperceptions involve hearing utterances different from what was spoken, yet perceived clearly.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze perceptual errors in casual English speech.
  • To investigate the role of morphology in speech perception errors.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a corpus of approximately 1000 examples of misperceptions in English conversation.
  • Examination of perceptual errors specifically involving morphology.

Main Results:

  • Perceptual errors involving morphology indicate listeners expect simpler, monomorphemic word forms.

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  • Listeners treat phonological (sound-based) information as primary over morphological (word-structure) information.
  • Listeners often supply missing inflectional morphemes based on contextual expectations.

    • Conclusions:

    • Speech perception is influenced by listener expectations regarding word form.
    • Phonological cues play a dominant role in processing casual speech, sometimes overriding morphological accuracy.
    • The study sheds light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying everyday speech comprehension errors.