Phonetic Features in Language Production: An Experimental Examination of Phonetic Feature Errors

While many studies have examined the behavior of phonemes in experimentally elicited speech errors (e.g. Baars & Motley, 1976; Butterworth & Whittaker, 1980; Dell, 1986; Dell, Reed, Adams, & Meyer, 2000; Stemberger, 1991), none have looked at unambiguous phonetic feature errors in speech error experiments. To date, examinations of feature errors and what such errors tell us about the function of phonetic features in language planning have come from examinations of naturally occurring speech error corpora (Shattuck-Hufnagel & Klatt, 1979, Stemberger, 1982). Four experiments were conducted to examine unambiguous feature errors in error elicitation tasks. Considerably more feature errors were produced than would be expected based on naturally occurring errors or current theories of language production. Analyses comparing the behavior of the phoneme and feature errors found that feature errors behave very similarly to phoneme errors. A proposal of how models of language production could accommodate these findings is made.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Guest, Daniel James

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dell, Gary S.

• Language, Linguistics

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3044098

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82018