Finding Your Train of Thought - where it isn't supposed to be: Priming in non-contextual word substitutions
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2006
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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This paper discusses the causes behind a previously unclassified type of non-contextual
word substitution speech errors, in which a speaker erroneously replaces a lexical unit
with a lexical Unit recently mentioned in the discourse. The leading theories of speech
production are first explained. William Levelt's theory (1989, et a1.1999) is adopted as
the basis for the speech error discussion. The tendency towards production of a
previously processed or produced word is explained through the cognitive psychology
concepts ofpRlMING and its associated memory systems, and the linguistic concepts of
discourse models and discourse topicality. A hypothesis for the cause of this type of error
is made based on the classification of the type of priming and memory system involved,
as well as the characteristics of the words involved in non-contextual word substitutions
in general and the priming type in particular.