Frequency of use leads to automaticity of production: evidence from repair in conversation.
In spontaneous speech, speakers sometimes replace a word they have just produced or started producing by another word. The present study reports that in these replacement repairs, low-frequency replaced words are more likely to be interrupted prior to completion than high-frequency words, providing...
| Published in: | Language & Speech Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 71 - 106 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts tracings Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2010
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