Slips of the Tongue and Pen in Chinese - Sino-Platonic Papers

David Moser, "Slips of the Tongue and Pen in Chinese" Sino-Platonic Papers, no. 22 (March 199 1 )
agreement that Chinese readers do employ a speech recoding strategy in
reading, though not to the extent that readers of English do. (See Hung &
Tzeng, 1981, for an excellent overview of research in this area.)
Errors in writing and in reading out loud might perhaps be used to
expand and supplement the corpus of evidence in these two domains.
There is already some work in the field of error-making that addresses
low-level neurolinguistic aspects of speech errors (e.g. Laver, 1980), and
such work can no doubt be incorporated into work on aphasia and other
speech-related brain disorders. The combining of error research with these
two areas - clinical research on speech pathology and investigations of the
reading processes of normal language users - might prove very fruitful,
since behavior observed in linguistic errors has the advantage of being
poised somewhere in between "business-as-usual" linguistic performance
and pathological functioning.