ABSTRACT
F. Heynick based his paper on 86 sleep talking episodes uttered by 15 native Dutch-speaking subjects sleeping at home. They were all unpaid volunteers chosen from over 150 people responding to radio and newspaper advertisements for “chronic sleep-talkers.” In his paper on Verbal Aggression Heynick found that of his total of 86 sleep-speeches, only 5 were found to contain maledictions. These 5 speeches were uttered by 4 female subjects. None were uttered by males. Neither sexual nor scatological profanities were observed, although sexual ones are very common in wakeful Dutch speech. In his paper on linguistic aspects of Freud’s model, Heynick primarily reviewed Freud’s model of linguistic phenomena in dream formation, and secondarily explored its applicability to overt sleep-speech. Heynick states that both hallucinated dream-speech and overt sleep-speech are notable for their correct syntactic grammaticality. Heynick extended his claim of typical correct grammaticality to include sleep-speech as well.
