Speech errors illustrate a difference between linguistic competence and performance since our very recognition of them as errors shows that we have knowledge of well-formed sentences. Furthermore, errors provide information about the grammar. The following utterances are part of the UCLA corpus of over 15,000 speech errors. Most of them were actually observed. A few are attributed to Dr. Spooner.
For each speech error, state what kind of linguistic unit or rule is involved, that is, phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, or semantic.
Example ad hoc -> odd hack
phonological vowel segment; reversal or exchange of segments
she gave it away -> she gived it away
inflectional morphology; incorrect application of regular past-tense rule to exceptional verb
This is a task from my linguistics course book. I did this exercises though I am not sure whether it's correct or not. I failed the last exam in lings and if I fail the next one, which I'm having on Wednesday, I'll be in big trouble. That's why it's so important to me. Please, look at what I've done and try to determine whether I am correct or not. I realise that not all of you might know this so please mark if you're not sure your answer either. Thank you so so much.
1. brake fluid -> blake fruid (phonological)
2. drink is the curse of the working classes -> work is the curse of the drinking classes (semantic)
3. we have many ministers in our church -> ...many churches in our minister (morphological)
4. untactful -> distactful (morphological)
5. an eating marathon -> a meeting marathon (phonological)
6. executive committee -> executor committee (semantic)
7. lady with the dachshund -> lady with the Volkswagen (semantic)
8. stick in the mud -> smuck in the tid (phonological)
9. he broke the crystal on my watch -> he broke the whistle on my crotch (no idea here )
10. a phonological rule -> a phonological fool (phomological)
11. pitch and stress -> piss and stretch (phonological)
12. big and fat -> pig and vat (100% positive; phonological)
13. speech production -> preach seduction (no idea here )
14. He's a New Yorker -> He's a New Yorkan (semantic)
15. I'd forgotten about that -> I'd forgot abouten that (morphological)
Wow, haven't seen that one yet! Riveting!
OK, some things that come to my mind right off the bat, so rather than giving you an estimate on whether I'm 100% or 90% positive, I'm gonna tell you to consider the following.
majlo napisał/a:
2. drink is the curse of the working classes -> work is the curse of the drinking classes (semantic)
my first thought was morphological (but actually, I believe this one's among the apocryphally atributed to Rev. Spooner, so..)
majlo napisał/a:
9. he broke the crystal on my watch -> he broke the whistle on my crotch (no idea here )
similar here: morphological
majlo napisał/a:
13. speech production -> preach seduction (no idea here )
another spoonerism - phonological
majlo napisał/a:
14. He's a New Yorker -> He's a New Yorkan (semantic)
this one is a morphological error that involves substitution of one suffix /-an, as in American/ for another /-er/
Nos. 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12 I agree, are phonological; 3,4, 15 - morphological; 7 - definite semantic similarity.
Tell me what you think.
And you know me, I'm always open for discussion
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Now it's all over Fortunately, this exercise was absent from the test. I think I did quite well; well enough to pass it and be let to write the exam. Anyway, I don't want to jinx (somewhere in the forum I claimed I wasn't superstitious hehe ).
As for the corrections you made, I would agree to all of them.
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Fortunately, this exercise was absent from the test. I think I did quite well; well enough to pass it and be let to write the exam. Anyway, I don't want to jinx (somewhere in the forum I claimed I wasn't superstitious hehe 
).
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