Web Activity 10.8 Explaining and predicting speech errors

Consider the following speech errors. Tell a story about how each of them likely came about in terms of what you know so far about the language production machinery.

• That’s torrible! [That’s terrible/horrible]
• I’ve got a load of cooken chicked [chicken cooked]
• Hass or grash [hash or grass]
• Older men choose to tend younger wives [tend to choose younger wives]
• I went to get a cash checked [check cashed]
• I tried making some parchment [making some patchwork]
• I would like to enlicit your support [enlist/elicit your support]
• The currenth month [current month]
• Even the best team losts [best teams lost; note the pronunciation of –s in losts]
• They haven’t been married with the precision you’re using [measured with the precision you’re using]

Now, consider the possibility of phonology feeding back to the lemma level—which of the examples above might have resulted partly from this type of feedback?

If phonology can indeed feed back up to the lemma level, what kinds of errors should be especially prevalent? Can you provide some made-up examples of the sort of speech errors you would look for?