UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Speaking Outside the Box: Learning of Non-native Phonotactic Constraints is Revealed in Speech Errors Publication Date Speaking Outside the Box: Learning of Non-native Phonotactic Constraints is Revealed in Speech Errors

Gary Dell, Christine Whalen, Christine Whalen, Gary Dell
2006 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society   unpublished
Phonological speech errors reflect the linguistic knowledge of the speaker. For example, in English, a misplaced [ŋ] will always end up as a syllable coda, in agreement with the phonotactic constraint that [ŋ] segments must be codas. Two experiments showed that phonotactic knowledge and its influence on speech errors can be easily changed. Participants were taught to produce [ŋ] in syllable onset position, and as a result produced errors reflecting this new knowledge.
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