The modality-specificity of linguistic representations: Evidence from slips of the tongue and the pen

Berg, Thomas

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“…While adjacent switches treat these two classes of graphemes indiscriminately, nonadjacent errors either involve two consonants or two vowels but do not allow consonant-vowel interactions. A very similar result emerged from the examination of slips of the pen (Berg, 1997).…”

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“…Table 4 shows a relatively high incidence of deletions in the typewriting data, as well as in Wing and Baddeley's (1980) handwriting data. In contrast, the number of deletions is fairly low in Berg's (1997) self-produced pen slips, even though his corpus is highly similar to the other corpora in all other respects. Thus, there is a clear dissociation between the frequency of omissions and that of within-word slips, for example.…”

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“…A comparison between Figure 1 and the representational system of handwriting as outlined in Berg (1997) reveals a perfect match. Exactly the same representational systems are claimed to underlie handwriting and typewriting.…”

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“…It is no surprise therefore that systematic comparisons of error data from different modalities are at a premium. Even though a few studies have compared slips of the tongue and the pen (e.g., Aitchison & Todd, 1982;Berg, 1997;Hotopf, 1983), no detailed comparisons are available of slips of the pen and the key (or of slips of the tongue and the key, for that matter, with the possible exception of MacNeilage, 1985). It is one of the objectives of the present article to carry out such a comparison.…”

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Slips of the typewriter key

Berg

2002

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This article presents an analysis of 500 submorphemic slips of the typewriter key that escaped the notice of authors and other proofreaders and thereby made their way into the published records of scientific research. Despite this high selectivity, the corpus is not found to differ in major ways from other collections of keying slips. The main characteristics of this error type include a predominance of within-word slips, an elevated rate of noncontextual slips, a heightened incidence of omissions (in particular, masking errors), a high number of adjacent switches, and an uncommonness of these slips in word edges. In all these respects, slips of the key resemble slips of the pen, although not slips of the tongue. It is argued that speech errors are shaped by a fully deployed structural representation, whereas key slips arise under the influence of a weak structural representation. By implication, speaking is characterized by a hierarchical strategy of activation while typewriting is subject to the so-called staircase strategy of serialization in which activation is a function of linear distance. These disparate strategies may be understood as a response of the processing system to disparate requirements, such as varying speed of execution.

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Mental representation of symbols as revealed by vocabulary errors in two bonobos (Pan paniscus)

Lyn

2007

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Error analysis has been used in humans to detect implicit representations and categories in language use. The present study utilizes the same technique to report on mental representations and categories in symbol use from two bonobos (Pan paniscus). These bonobos have been shown in published reports to comprehend English at the level of a two-and-a-half year old child and to use a keyboard with over 200 visuographic symbols (lexigrams). In this study, vocabulary test errors from over 10 years of data revealed auditory, visual, and spatio-temporal generalizations (errors were more likely items that looked like sounded like, or were frequently associated with the sample item in space or in time), as well as hierarchical and conceptual categorizations. These error data, like those of humans, are a result of spontaneous responding rather than specific training and do not solely depend upon the sample mode (e.g. auditory similarity errors are not universally more frequent with an English sample, nor were visual similarity errors universally more frequent with a photograph sample). However, unlike humans, these bonobos do not make errors based on syntactical confusions (e.g. confusing semantically unrelated nouns), suggesting that they may not separate syntactical and semantic information. These data suggest that apes spontaneously create a complex, hierarchical, web of representations when exposed to a symbol system.

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A structural account of phonological paraphasias

Berg¹

2006

Brain and Language

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The modality-specificity of linguistic representations: Evidence from slips of the tongue and the pen

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Slips of the typewriter key

Slips of the typewriter key

Mental representation of symbols as revealed by vocabulary errors in two bonobos (Pan paniscus)

A structural account of phonological paraphasias

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