摘要：Phonemic paraphasias are characterized by the substitution of sounds in words. They are equivalent to phonemic speech errors made by healthy people, as both are involuntary, although such errors are much more frequent in language disorder than in normal speech. Fromkin (1971) proposed that speech errors only occur in consonance with the rules of sound combination - the phonotactic rules of a language, a fact later confirmed for normal as for aphasie error patterns. Levelt (1989) relates such errors to a problem of phoneme retrieval, a stage previous to articulation. The occurrence of similar effects despite language differences indicates that this may be a general phenomenon, probably related to the human language capacity. We present data from phonemic errors made by three native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese with aphasia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first analysis to tap into the phonological structure of speech errors by subjects with aphasia in this language.
