Abstract
When speakers produce utterances ‘slips of the tongue’ and other errors may creep in from time to time. Such errors are often corrected by so-called ‘repairs’. According to a well-known rule given by Levelt, all but syntactic repairs can be described as coordination structures of a special kind. This paper proposes that Levelt’s coordination rule does not necessarily entail that repairs are produced along the lines of this rule. In order to illustrate this, a connectionist language-production model is introduced, which produces both coordination-like repairs and syntactic repairs with the same mechanism.
The development of this language-production model has been supported by grants from the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (DFG), “Forschergruppe Kohärenz”, research project “Gesprochenes Deutsch”.
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Schade, U., Laubenstein, U. (1993). Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model. In: Köhler, R., Rieger, B.B. (eds) Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1769-2_7
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