The Production of Verbal Slips and Double Entendres as Clues to the Efficiency of Normal Speech Production
- 1 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
- Vol. 4 (3-4) , 275-293
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x8543007
Abstract
The examination of verbal slips is an established method for investigating the cognitive structures and mechanisms of normal speech production. The present study includes double entendres as a cousin of the verbal slip, and attempts to determine the cognitive-processing origins of both through an examination of naturalistic and laboratory observations. Several categories of antecedent conditions are proposed, with implications for the cognitive efficiency of normal, error-free, speech production; and in particular, with implications of polysemantic activation within a spreading-activation lexicon.Keywords
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