The Neighborhood Characteristics of Malapropisms

Language and Speech

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 211-228

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Speech Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical density; Malapropisms; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 0347173709     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099704000301     Document Type: Article

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