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Spoonish Spanerisms: A Lexical Bias Effect in Spanish
Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Anton-Mendez, Ines; Roelstraete, Bjorn; Costa, Albert
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v32 n4 p949-953 Jul 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. Garcia-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.
Descriptors: Language Processing, Lexicology, Bias, Spanish, Phonology, Phonetic Analysis, Experimental Psychology, Oral Language, Computational Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)
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