According to Dell's Theory of Speech Errors

question 75

Multiple Choice

According to Dell's theory of speech errors,

• A) slip-of-the-tongue occur because each sound can be activated by several different words.
• B) slip-of-the-tongue tend to involve words from different syntactic categories.
• C) slip-of-the-tongue occur because people focus too closely on the pragmatics of language.
• D) slip-of-the-tongue occur because we pay too much attention to word choice.

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