It can happen to anyone: As you’re talking, you hear yourself say, “I heard that she—wait, I mean he!” A pronoun slip can be embarrassing, especially if you pride yourself on being generally good at ...

In the quest for language universals, one of the properties that linguists generally take to be universal is that a substantial portion of the lexical items are produced sequentially by speakers; i.e.

Adam Schembri works for La Trobe University, and is a member of the Victorian Auslan Training Consortium. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Before we answer that question, it ...