{"id":27196,"date":"2016-08-03T16:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T21:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2016-08-04T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:24:36","slug":"speech-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=27196","title":{"rendered":"Speech errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumors that Donald Trump's campaign staff is feeling stressed &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">longtime ally of Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager: \"Manafort not challenging Trump anymore. Mailing it in. Staff suicidal.\"<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnJHarwood\/status\/760633940151443457\">August 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it's just lack of sleep, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5o12Eol_1SQ\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Manafort's <em>Meet The Press<\/em> interview last Sunday<\/a> does seem remarkably disfluent. He exhibits an unusual number of unusually complex self-corrections; and even more strikingly, he swaps the names of Clinton and Obama (\"the policies that were put together in Jan- in January of two thousand nine by President Clinton and Secretary Obama\") and then substitutes \"Clinton\" for \"Trump\" (\"uh and- and if it's midnight in America, like she accused Mister Clinton of\".<\/p>\n<p><audio style=\"width: 230px;\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ManafortMeetThePressX.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Here's the whole of the first Q&amp;A from that interview:<\/p>\n<p><audio style=\"width: 230px;\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/ManafortMeetThePressX1.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Compare Mr. Manafort's 6\/27\/2016 appearance on <em>Meet the Press<\/em>, where none of the same extreme disfluencies are on display:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Manafort On Brexit, Donald Trump&#039;s Campaign (Full Interview) | Meet The Press | NBC News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y0e26xY2W3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R2-jM24ghJk\" target=\"_blank\">Katrina Pearson's 8\/2\/2016 interview with Megyn Kelly<\/a>, she leaves out a crucial negation and calls Barack Obama \"probably one of the most qualified people to ever run for office\":<\/p>\n<p><audio style=\"width: 230px;\" controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/KatrinaPiersonObamaQualified.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Update Nick Gass, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/paul-manafort-endorses-paul-ryan-mistake-226657\" target=\"_blank\">Manafort misspeaks on Ryan: 'I'm going to be supporting him as a candidate for president, too'<\/a>\", Politico 7\/4\/2016. Almost enough to make you believe Freud about speech errors as the unconscious mind taking over to express repressed fears and desires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are rumors that Donald Trump's campaign staff is feeling stressed &#8212; longtime ally of Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager: \"Manafort not challenging Trump anymore. Mailing it in. Staff suicidal.\" \u2014 John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 3, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-of-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27196"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27219,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions\/27219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}