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The Psycholinguistics of Microgenesis: The Nature of Paraphasia

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Cognitive Microgenesis

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The aim of the present chapter is to suggest that numerous significant correlations and connections exist between microgenetic theory and psycholinguistic theory and that Caplan perhaps overstated his case when he wrote that, “In Brown’s case, the model of sentence production he proposed has no clear connection with any models proposed by psychologists working on normal language production” (1987, p. 138). If I am successful in what I am about to say, then Caplan’s quotation will have been tempered somewhat.

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Buckingham, H.W. (1991). The Psycholinguistics of Microgenesis: The Nature of Paraphasia. In: Hanlon, R.E. (eds) Cognitive Microgenesis. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3056-4_8

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