Chapter 10 Web Links

Slips, trips, and fails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18OBBoS5Fo

In this video, researcher Karin Humphreys gives an accessible public lecture about speech errors, tip-of-the-tongue states, and what they reveal about language production. The first 30 minutes of the talk serve as an excellent summary of many of the key concepts in Chapter 10. In the last 15 minutes, Humphreys reports details about her work on entrenched errors and tip-of-the-tongue states.

Speech errors in politics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpu_iEsISuI

Politicians suffer greatly from the public myth that speech errors reveal a person’s innermost thoughts and attitudes, as many mundane speech errors are attributed to their “real” but hidden thoughts. This video contains a collection of political speech errors that are vulnerable to such misinterpretations.