0 a mistake made when speaking in which the first sounds of two words are exchanged with each other to produce a not intended and usually funny meaning:
The conclusion from both studies is that the standard scoring of the spoonerism task significantly underestimates dyslexic children's competence with onset - rime segmentation.
A large proportion of the erroneous responses is apparently due to the high memory and monitoring demands of the spoonerism task.
However, with respect to extra task demands, the spoonerism task appears much more complex than either the vowel substitution or the nonword spelling task.
The rescored performance of the spoonerism task was contrasted with performance on a nonword spelling task.
One argument would be that the more demanding spoonerism task revealed phonemic awareness deficits that were masked by the easier vowel substitution and nonword spelling tasks.
One may reason that even the rescored spoonerism responses may underestimate dyslexic children's segmental abilities: producing even one response word correct involves more than simply segmenting the two stimulus words.
Few, if any, of his own spoonerisms were deliberate, and many of those attributed to him are apocryphal.
Much of practical "sananmuunnos" wordplay revolves around obscene double entendre expressed by spoonerism.
