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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Speech Lang Pathol. 2011 Dec 1;19(4):25–36.

TABLE 1.

Examples of Lexical Boundary Errors

Before Strong Syllable Before Weak Syllable
Insertion IS IW
Target → Error Amend → Come in Friendly → Man that
Deletion DS DW
Target → Error Slower page → Novocaine Catch it → Catchy

DS = delete boundary before a strong syllable; DW = delete boundary before a weak syllable; IS = insert boundary before a strong syllable; IW = insert boundary before a weak syllable.