Malapropism: What Is Speech Error?

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In our daily life, we usually may meet some situations which are like misreadings,mishearing, or temporary forgetting in our communication process. When the people meet these situations, they are maybe going to losing their minds. Even some of them who are always claiming that we never make any mistakes. When we have these mistakes in our communicating or writing,we will feel embarrassing or losing confidence. What is wrong with us? What is going on ? Why we always make these mistakes, even we tried to avoid this. What is misreading, mishearing, temporary forgetting? We will find out it.

What is speech error?
A speech error, commonly referred to as a slip of the tongue is a deviation (conscious or unconscious) from the apparently intended
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Malapropism

The term is popularly used today in a humorous way when a person makes a mistake in speech. This phenomenon that someone use speech error to make humor sense, is called malapropism. Someone may confuse that what is malapropism.

Malapropism is the act of using an incorrect word in place of one that is similar in pronunciation. The word comes from a character named Mrs. Malaprop in the play "The Rivals" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Malapropism is also referred to as Dogberryism, named after Officer Dogberry in Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing." Both characters made these speech errors. Here are some examples of malapropisms:

Mrs. Malaprop said, "Illiterate him quite from your memory" (obliterate) and "She's as headstrong as an allegory" (alligator)
Officer Dogberry said, "Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons" (apprehended two suspicious persons)
Rainy weather can be hard on the sciences. (sinuses)
Alice said she couldn't eat crabs or any other crushed Asians. (crustaceans)
I have no delusions to the past. (allusions)
You could have knocked me over with a fender.
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A speech sound disorder occurs when mistakes continue past a certain age. Every sound has a different range of ages when the child should make the sound correctly. Speech sound disorders include problems with articulation (making sounds) and phonological processes (sound patterns).

Speech sound disorders involve difficulty in producing specific speech sounds (most often certain consonants, such as /s/ or /r/), and are subdivided into articulation disorders (also called phonetic disorders) and phonemic disorders. Specially the phonemic disorders. phonological process disorder involves patterns of sound errors. For example, substituting all sounds made in the back of the mouth like "k" and "g" for those in the front of the mouth like "t" and "d" (e.g., saying "tup" for "cup" or "das" for "gas").

Another rule of speech is that some words start with two consonants, such as broken or spoon. When children don't follow this rule and say only one of the sounds ("boken" for broken or "poon" for spoon), it is more difficult for the listener to understand the child. While it is common for young children learning speech to leave one of the sounds out of the word, it is not expected as a child gets older. If a child continues to demonstrate such cluster reduction, he or she may have a phonological process

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