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Language production and serial order: a functional analysis and a model

G S Dell1, L K Burger, W R Svec

  • 1Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA. gdell@s.psych.uiuc.edu

Psychological Review
|January 1, 1997
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Speech errors like perseverations and anticipations reveal how language production handles serial order. A new model predicts that lower error rates lead to more anticipatory errors, regardless of influencing factors.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Speech Production

Background:

  • Speech errors, such as perseverations and anticipations, offer insights into the temporal dynamics of language production.
  • Understanding serial order processing is crucial for explaining how humans produce fluent speech.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a functional analysis of serial order in language.
  • To develop a formal model predicting the ratio of anticipatory to perseveratory speech errors.

Main Methods:

  • Functional analysis of serial order in speech production.
  • Development of a formal model based on error rates.
  • Application of the model to experimental and natural speech error data.

Main Results:

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  • The fraction of anticipatory versus perseveratory errors is predictable by the overall error rate.
  • Lower overall error rates correlate with a higher proportion of anticipatory errors.
  • The model's predictions align with data influenced by practice, speech rate, age, and brain damage.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed model successfully explains the relationship between overall error rate and the type of serial-order errors in speech.
  • This framework enhances our understanding of the temporal control mechanisms in language production.