Have You Ever Been Distracted While You Were Speaking and Accidentally

question 107

Multiple Choice

Have you ever been distracted while you were speaking and accidentally switched the sounds of two words? For example,a person might mean to say "I'm going to get a turkey sandwich," and instead say "I'm going to get a surkey tandwich." This type of expressive inversion is called a __________.

• A) phonemic reversal
• B) syntactic switch
• C) spoonerism
• D) morphism

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