Studies of Speech Corpuses Show That People Are Just as Likely

Multiple Choice

Studies of speech corpuses show that people are just as likely to produce speech errors involving parts of words, such as "nail the letter" instead of "mail the letter," as they are to produce errors involving whole words, such as "fax the letter" instead of "mail the letter." This result suggests that people store language in terms of which building block?

A) Phonemes
B) Morphemes
C) Words
D) Sentences