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Spoonerisms
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A person can make innumerable amount of speech errors in one single day. Speech errors are so common, that they usually only gain attention when either excessively stuttered out or when the speaker creates a humorous or even controversial slip: a five year old child demanded, “put your penis on the table.” Sigmund Freund would love to analyze such a slip, for even he may be hard-pressed to find a semantic relationship between ‘penis’ and ‘pennies.’ However, there are more relationships between spoonerisms and their intended meanings. Speech errors can be categorized into two basic groups: production errors and perception errors, just as a conversation has two sides, so do the errors performed in them. Since university students have perfect perception (!), the focus while collecting the data was on production, and the subcategories it contains. The subcategory containing the largest amount of collected slips was substitution., which may involve whole words or phonemes. Whole word errors are not random exchanges but usually share some semantic properties with the intended words. The words may also be those that tend to co-occur or are found together in many instances. It is also important to note that the targeted and the substituted words are almost always of the same syntactic category. Nouns replace nouns, verbs replace verbs, etc.,:‘wire’ was said instead of ‘liar,’ two nouns which also happen to share the same vowel sound. A phonological substitution can be seen in ‘commuters’ as apposed to ‘computers’. The phoneme /p/ was left out of the intended word. ‘Later’ when ‘sooner’ was intended is a relational substitution; both words are references to time and are also opposites. The data collected shows that the errors are often actual words, and do not necessarily produce non-words. Females tend to make this type of mistake more than males; twelve females made this speech error as opposed to six males.
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Title: Spoonerisms
Words: 1534
Rating: None
Pages: 6.1
submitted by: plasticfae
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