ABSTRACT
Thus paradigmatic lexical substitution errors will most often be caused by either a semantic or phonological relationship between the target and error word, and blends will be caused by semantic similarity. But what other factors could be involved in paradigmatic lexical errors? And what causes specific lexical items to be moved or exchanged in a syntagmatic error? An examination of the errors themselves reveals a number of other factors that may be involved. First, lexical selection and assignment processes are governed by constraints on which lexical category is necessary to fulfill the functional and syntactic requirements of the utterance. Second, lexical errors are made in some sort of context, and contextual factors, such as what the speaker is looking at or thinking about may intrude, as mentioned in Chapter 3. Finally, content words and function words are activated in different phases of speech production planning, and thus errors involving words from each of these two classes of words may have very different causes.
