ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies
ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 

Randomness or regularity? Frequency and other possible causes of grammatical speech failures in spontaneous speech

DOI:10.30842/alp23065737171123142
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Zavadskaya Yu. O. Sluchaynost ili zakonomernost? Chastotnost slovoformy i drugiye vozmozhnyye prichiny grammaticheskikh rechevykh sboyev v russkoy spontannoy rechi. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 2021. 17(1): 123–142.

Oral spontaneous speech is an object of multidimensional, not only purely linguistic, research. A full-fledged analysis of live speech is impossible without studying such essential elements as hesitation pauses, repetitions, breaks, etc. The inherent features of spontaneous speech include bloopers / slips of the tongue — one of the varieties of speech failure. Speech failures occur at different language levels and can be divided into phonetic, lexical, and grammatical failures. This article reviews possible causes for grammatical speech failures in the oral spontaneous monologue of native Russian speakers. The analysis of the material revealed that speech failures can occur for several reasons: the priming effect (the influence of the previous context) or the “future effect” (the influence of the future, yet unpronounced but already mentally prepared context); or the total frequency of a particular grammatical form. The research is based on the Russian monological speech corpus, created at SPBU and known as the “Balanced annotated text library”. The user subcorpus included 111 context-based units.

Keywords
oral speech, spontaneous speech, oral monologue, reservations, speech failures, grammatical reservations, frequency
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Keywords
oral speech, spontaneous speech, oral monologue, reservations, speech failures, grammatical reservations, frequency
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