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HCHenry

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According to Dell's explanation, a slip-of-the-tongue occurs because of
 
  a. unconscious anxiety about the content of speech production.
  b. classical conditioning.
  c. interference from inappropriate sounds that are highly active.
  d. a variant of the Stroop effect.

Question 2

According to Dell's theory of speech errors,
 
  a. slips of the tongue occur because each sound can be activated by several different words.
  b. slips of the tongue tend to involve words from different syntactic categories.
  c. slips of the tongue occur because people focus too closely on the pragmatics of language.
  d. slips of the tongue occur because we pay too much attention to word choice.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: c

Answer to Question 2

Ans: a



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