UNIT 7

Arthur is trying to name a key ingredient in his famous fish and chip recipe. He remembers that it is a white powder that helps in the dough rising process, also used in baking. He says, “Then you have to put in two teaspoons of the whatchamacallit.” His inability to retrieve the name of the ingredient while recalling its other characteristics suggests that he

• has activated the lemma associated with that word, but not the word’s sounds.

• should have retrieved the correct word before beginning to speak.

• has failed to activate the lemma associated with that word.

Short pauses and disfluency in speech likely indicate that the speaker

• is engaging in some mental activity related to planning speech.

• has a speech disorder.

• lost her train of thought.

Speech errors induced by a combination of semantic and phonetic similarities between the intended words and the unintended utterances, such as saying Hello (intended) Linda (unintended) to your wife, when her name is Laura, (Linda being the name of your ex-wife), support the _______ of word activation.

• cascade model

• syntactic priming

• serial model

Identify the type of speech errors made by Tommy “Have you seen my blat?”. He intended to say: “Have you seen my black hat?

• Word blends

• Word exchange

• Perseveration

Identify at which level of production these speech errors occurred. Tommy´s speech error was: “Have you seen my blat?”. He intended to say: “Have you seen my black hat?

• Word

• Phonemes

• Morphemes

Participants are asked to quickly read the following list of word pairs silently before reading aloud a pair of target words:

dawn boat

dark boast

dart bone

It is more probable that the subject reads the following target of interest “Dart board” as:

• Dart board

• darn bore

• Bart doard

The following speech error: substituting rat for cat occurs at a:

• Phonological level

• Semantical level

• Phonological and semantical leve

Which speech error is more probable to occur?

• substituting vat for cat.

• substituting rat for cat.

• substituting dog for cat.