Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

Speech errors are a critical source of data on the tacit knowledge that underlies our creative
use of language. Studies of errors in spontaneous speech, in experimental paradigms such …

This article addresses a phenomenon of long-standing interest: the existence of child-
specific phonological patterns that are not attested in adult language. We propose a new …

Though past research on the sound structure of speech errors has contributed greatly to our
understanding of phonological encoding, most of this research comes from a small set of …

Phonological complexity may be central to the nature of human language. It may shape the
distribution of phonemes and phoneme sequences within languages, but also determine …

Why are French élan [elM] and nuance [nyMr] pronounced [elæn] and [nuans] in English?
Why are English credit [kzXedXt] and desk [desk] pronounced [k= red, itto] and [des= k=] in …

It is a widespread assumption that all languages have a similar level of complexity, and it is
a futile attempt to rank languages in terms of simplicity/complexity. The argument for this …

Speech errors involving manipulations of sounds tend to be phonologically regular in the
sense that they obey the phonotactic rules of well‐formed words. We review the empirical …

Background: In aphasia, impairments affecting stages after lexical access have been
subdivided into three types: 1. impairments specifying a sequence of phonemes after lexical …

Theories of spoken production have not specifically addressed whether the phonemes of a
word compete with each other for selection during phonological encoding (eg …