Abstract
Speakers can correct their speech errors, but the mechanisms behind repairs are still unclear. Some findings, such as the speed of repairs and speakers’ occasional unawareness of them, point to an automatic repair process. This paper reports a finding that challenges a purely automatic repair process. Specifically, we show that as error rate increases, so does the proportion of repairs. Twenty highly-proficient English-Spanish bilinguals described dynamic visual events in real time (e.g. “The blue bottle disappears behind the brown curtain”) in English and Spanish blocks. Both error rates and proportion of corrected errors were higher on (a) noun phrase (NP)2 vs. NP1, and (b) word1 (adjective in English and noun in Spanish) vs. word2 within the NP. These results show a consistent relationship between error and repair probabilities, disentangled from position, compatible with a model in which greater control is recruited in error-prone situations to enhance the effectiveness of repair.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1230-1245 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 21 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Speech errors
- bilingualism
- cognitive control
- incremental planning
- monitoring
- repair
- semantic interference
- sentence production
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
- Cognitive Neuroscience