sum chinese speech errors 2 weeks ago sent query linguist list asking references topic speech errors chinese thanks 9 kindly replied information advice questions pleased people interested topic disappointed find little research reportedly done field read papers errors chinese handwriting much reported oral errors sum references got far linguist list 1 shen jiaxuan kou wu lei lei zhongguo yuwen 1992 4 2 moser david slips tongue pen chinese sino platonic papers 22 1991 grateful responses promised keep looking references still wondering one question keep asking chinese speakers make speech errors err remarkably less say english speakers thank yang wei dept linguistics university victoria