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Target–error resemblance in French word substitution speech errors and the mental lexicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Pierre J. L. Arnaud
Pierre J. L. Arnaud*
Affiliation:
Université Lumière
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Pierre J. L. Arnaud, C.R.T.T., Université Lumière, 69365 Lyon CEDEX 07, France. Email: pierre.arnaud@univ-lyon2.fr
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Abstract

The word substitution errors from a corpus of 2,400 French slips of the tongue were grouped into several categories: contaminational, semantic, formal, and mixed cases; substitutions of syntagmatic codependents also occurred. Semantic and formal substitutions involved a resemblance between target and error. In addition, all substitutions exhibited a strong degree of word class and gender identity. The various types of resemblance were analyzed with reference to three-layer models of lexicalization. They did not make a lemma layer necessary, but stronger evidence came from another error category – semantic blends.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 269 - 287
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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