SLIPS OF THE EAR DEMONSTRATE PHONOLOGY IN ACTION

Linda Shockey1 & Z. S. Bond2
1University of Reading; 2Ohio University

ID 1045
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In casual conversation, listeners occasionally report hearing something which differs from what the talker has intended. A large proportion of such ‘slips of the ear’ involves casual speech phonological alternations. The error patterns suggest that listeners employ knowledge of casual speech phonology to map phonetic forms into lexical entries.