Tip of the tongue and slip of the ear: A comparative study
Catherine P. Browman · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1978
Lexical retrieval errors (tip of the tongue) and perceptual errors (slip of the ear) occurring in casual conversation were collected and analyzed. The distribution of the errors with respect to the position within the word, position within the syllable, and level of stress was determined. Both lexical and perceptual errors occurred less frequently on the final syllable of the word and on stressed syllables. Lexical errors occurred less frequently on initial syllables of the word, while perceptual errors occurred more frequently on initial syllables of the word. Implications for processing models will be discussed [Work supported by NIH and the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory .]