Speech error

Definition
A speech error is a non-canonical aspect of an utterance that was not intended by the speaker.

Mispronunciations or speech errors can be divided into different types.


 * 1) anticipations: 'a leading list' (for 'a reading list')
 * 2) perseverations: 'at the beginning of the burn' (for 'at the beginning of the turn')
 * 3) reversals or spoonerisms: 'heft lemisphere' (for 'left hemisphere')
 * (Examples are taken from Fromkin 1973)

Links
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Synonyms

 * slip of the tongue

Related terms

 * slip of the ear
 * slip of the pen
 * slip of the hand

Other languages
German Versprecher/Sprechfehler