1st Edition
Kids' Slips What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development
By Jeri J. Jaeger
Copyright 2005
748 Pages
by
Psychology Press
748 Pages
by
Psychology Press
745 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips, there has never been a corpus of such errors from children with which to work. This is the first... Read more
Contents: Preface. Kids' Slips as Evidence for Language Development. Kids' Slips and Adults' Slips: General Comparison. Phonetics and Phonology. The Lexicon and Lexical Errors. Semantic Relationships in Lexical Errors. Morphology and Syntax. Child Data.
Biography
Jeri J. Jaeger
"If this book had to be summarized in one word, my choice would be 'refreshing'...(the author's) painstaking guidance of her readers through an impressive mass of data makes all the more sense, not just because of the novelty of her research proposals, but crucially because she is interested in understanding and making the reader understand." -Madalena Curz-Ferreira in Child Language
