Speech errors in early child language production

There has been very little attention paid to nonsystemic errors in child language that closely resemble the speech errors made by adults. I have collected 576 such errors in the course of doing diary studies on my two children. Analyses reveal strong similarities with adult errors, suggesting that t...

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Published in:Journal of memory and language 1989-04, Vol.28 (2), p.164-188
Main Author: Stemberger, Joseph Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Developmental psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
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Summary:There has been very little attention paid to nonsystemic errors in child language that closely resemble the speech errors made by adults. I have collected 576 such errors in the course of doing diary studies on my two children. Analyses reveal strong similarities with adult errors, suggesting that the language production system is set up in an adult-like fashion from a very early age. However, a number of differences suggest interesting ways in which the child's language production system differs from that of adults: a lower rate of decay for the activation of elements that have been accessed and less interdependence between different phonological elements in a word or segment. The data are useful for settling some of the controversies about adult language production that are based on error phenomena and support some of the predictions made by recent connectionist models.
ISSN:0749-596X
1096-0821
DOI:10.1016/0749-596X(89)90042-9