The reliability of speech error data

Abstract

Collecting speech errors is enjoyable. For instance, it can give the collector the feeling of doing some useful work while on holiday, at a dinner party, or watching a television interview. And speech error collections are valuable: in the last decade research based on slips of the tongue has provided one of the major components of a long-overdue upsurge in interest in speech production processes, which have otherwise been accorded much less research attention than the processes of comprehension.