Hartsuiker, Robert J

Anton-Mendez, Ines

Roelstraete, Bjorn

Costa, Albert

2006

'Lexical bias' is the tendency for phonological errors to form existing words at a rate above chance. This effect has been observed in experiments and corpus analyses in Germanic languages, but S. del Viso, J. M. Igoa, and J. E. García-Albea (1991) found no effect in a Spanish corpus study. Because lexical bias plays an important role in the debate on interactivity in language production, the authors reconsidered its absence in Spanish. A corpus analysis, which considered relatively many errors and which used a method of estimating chance rate that is relatively independent of total error number, and a speech-error elicitation experiment provided converging evidence for lexical bias in Spanish. The authors conclude that the processing mechanisms underlying this effect hold cross-linguistically.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32(4), p. 949-953

1939-1285

0278-7393

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4974

American Psychological Association

Spoonish Spanerisms: A lexical bias effect in Spanish

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