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  2. Speech error - Wikipedia

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    There are some biases shown through slips of the tongue. One kind is a lexical bias which shows that the slips people generate are more often actual words than random sound strings. Baars Motley and Mackay (1975) found that it was more common for people to turn two actual words to two other actual words than when they do not create real words. [14]

  3. Tip of the tongue - Wikipedia

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    The blocking hypothesis states that retrieval cues elicit the retrieval of a word related to the target that then blocks the retrieval of the correct word and causes the tip of the tongue phenomenon to occur. [2] In other words, TOTs occur when plausible but incorrect responses to a query come to mind quickly.

  4. Speech disfluency - Wikipedia

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    A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".

  5. 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language - AOL

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    And if you want to ease into these hard tongue twisters, try these tongue twisters for kids first. The post 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  6. 33 of the Best Tongue Twisters for Kids - AOL

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    Tongue twisters are supposed to be fun, so make it a game—but a game you play with them, Dr. Paul says. ... then into words, and finally decipher the meaning in different contexts, says Diane ...

  7. Speaking in tongues - Wikipedia

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    Glossolalia is a borrowing of the γλωσσολαλία (glossolalía), which is a compound of the γλῶσσα (glossa) ' tongue, language ' [7] and λαλέω (laleō) ' to speak, talk, chat, prattle, make a sound '. [8]

  8. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.

  9. Woman, 45, had a lump on her tongue that wouldn't go ... - AOL

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    Soon after, she discovered the Young Tongues, which includes young people with tongue cancer worldwide. One of its founders, Barbara Fountain, says the group has experienced an influx of members.