SLIPS OF THE TONGUE PRODUCED BY INDONESIAN COLLEGE DEBATERS IN THE INDONESIAN DEBATE COMPETITION

Slips the tongue is a kind of interesting phenomena in Psycholinguistics study that can be found in almost human’s speech production. The present study aims to investigate the types of slips of the tongue and find out the dominant type produced by Indonesian college debaters in the debate competititon in Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The data was collected in one day using qualitative approach and recorded in Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. The writer applied 13 combined types of slips of the tongue proposed by Fromkin (1973) and Harley (2001). As the result, there were 143 slips of the tongue found. 100 of them belonged to the types of slips of the tongue proposed by Fromkin (1973) and Harley (2001), while the other 43 slips did not belong to the categorization. From 13 types of slips of the tongue, the writer only found 9 types belong to the combined types of slips of the tongue: (1) Phoneme anticipation, (2) Phoneme perseveration, (3) Phoneme exchange, (4) Word exchange, (5) Word blend, (6) Word substitution, (7) Misderivations, (8) Affix deletion, and (9) Phoneme deletion. Moreover, the most frequent or dominant type was word substitution with a total of 52 slips or about 36.36% of the data. However, the writer also found 7 types beyond the classification proposed by Fromkin (1973) and Harley (2001): (1) Syllable insertion, (2) Phoneme change, (3) Phoneme insertion, (4) Syllable deletion, (5) Misinflection, (6) Word deletion, and (7) word insertion. Concerning to the most dominant type, word substitution often substituted with the same word class