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  2. Speech error - Wikipedia

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    Error: Bake my bike. Perseveration Target: He pulled a tantrum. Error: He pulled a pantrum. Performance errors supply evidence for the psychological existence of discrete linguistic units. Speech errors involve substitutions, shifts, additions and deletions of segments. "In order to move a sound, the speaker must think of it as a separate unit."

  3. Error analysis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Developmental errors: this kind of errors is somehow part of the overgeneralizations, (this later is subtitled into Natural and developmental learning stage errors), D.E are results of normal pattern of development, such as (come = comed) and (break = breaked), D.E indicates that the learner has started developing their linguistic knowledge and ...

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    Judgmental language – using insulting or pejorative language in an argument. Pooh-pooh – stating that an opponent's argument is unworthy of consideration. [84] Style over substance – embellishing an argument with compelling language, exploiting a bias towards the esthetic qualities of an argument, e.g. the rhyme-as-reason effect [85]

  5. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    Examples These errors can be semantic, in which the meaning of the word is related to that of the intended word (car for van, for example). [16] Semantic paraphasias can be further subdivided into six different types. [12] Coordinate semantic paraphasias replace the target word with one that is from the same category, such as tiger for lion.

  6. Psycholinguistics - Wikipedia

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    Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. [1] The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.

  7. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Name Description Availability bias: Greater likelihood of recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples, and the imputation of importance to those examples over others. Bizarreness effect: Bizarre material is better remembered than common material. Boundary extension

  8. Error (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, it is considered important to distinguish errors from mistakes. A distinction is always made between errors and mistakes where the former is defined as resulting from a learner's lack of proper grammatical knowledge, whilst the latter as a failure to use a known system correctly. [9] Brown terms these mistakes as performance errors.

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Emojis are actual pictures, whereas emoticons are typographic displays of a facial representation, e.g. :-). epitome is used to mean a typical or ideal example of something. epidemy is an epidemic disease. eponymous is used to describe something that gives its name to something else, not something that receives the name of something else.