Grammar as processor
Subtitle: a distributed morphology account of spontaneous speech errors
By: Roland Pfau.
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 137; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 137.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789027255204
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology; Discourse analysis; Speech perception; Language awareness
Description: "Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative intention and the articulation of an utterance but also for the types of grammatical entities that are manipulated during production. This study proposes an analysis of speech errors that is informed by grammar theory. In particular, it is shown how characteristic properties of erroneous German utterances can be accounted for within Distributed Morphology (DM). The investigation focuses on two groups of errors: Errors that result from the manipulation of semantic and morphosyntactic features, and errors which appear to involve the application of a post-error repair strategy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.