Slips of the tongue in Arabic and their theoretical implications

Hassan Abd-El-Jawad*, Issam Abu-Salim

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze a large corpus of slips of the tongue in Arabic in an attempt to delineate their major linguistic properties. The slips considered for this study are classified into a number of categories according to the nature of the errors and units involved, i.e., whole-word substitution or segment substitution. The findings of this study are, then, related to the various theoretical issues concerning the reality of phonetic features and segments, syllabic units, words, the underlying representation of morphemes, and the semantic properties in speech production.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)145-171
Number of pages27
JournalLanguage Sciences
Volume9
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 1987
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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