THE FREQUENCY EFFECT IN THE SELECTION OF INFLECTED WORD FORMS: A STUDY OF SPEECH ERRORS

THE FREQUENCY EFFECT IN THE SELECTION OF INFLECTED WORD FORMS: A STUDY OF SPEECH ERRORS

Author:  Gorokhova S.I.

Affiliation:  St.-Petersburg State University

Abstract:  A corpus-based analysis of Russian speech error data suggests that information about the frequency of inflected word forms is available in the speaker’s production lexicon, and higher-frequency inflected forms are more likely to be selected during language production. The results provide evidence in favour of dynamic usage-based models of mental grammar and support the hypothesis that the frequency of occurrence of linguistic constructions is part of the speaker’s linguistic competence.

Keywords:  speech errors, inflected word form, word form frequency, target word form, error word form

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Pages:  535-537