Slips of the tongue in the Seoul Korean Corpus of spontaneous speech

Publication date: Available online 17 January 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Jeong-Im Han, Jeahyuk Oh, Joo-Yeon KimAbstractAlthough speech errors have served as the primary source of evidence for how the language production system works, there is a lack of studies on naturalistic slips of the tongue in Korean. The present study had two main goals: first, we introduced a new collection of slips produced by native speakers of Korean in a naturalistic setting and provided a general description of their main error patterns. The speech errors were drawn from a corpus of Korean conversations transcribed from tape recordings (Seoul Corpus; Yun et al., 2015), and classified according to the nature of the errors and the type of linguistic units with which each error type occurs. These findings were then compared to those reported from other languages such as some Germanic languages, Spanish, and Mandarin in order to make a preliminary cross-linguistic comparison of error patterns. It was found that Korean showed a wide range of universal language patterns, but also unique patterns which were attributed to the phonological and orthographic structures of Korean.
Source: Lingua - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research