At lunch in the faculty cafeteria today, one of the history faculty members was talking about how much she likes icing/frosting. She produced a great lexical blend, “iceting”, caught herself, laughed, and then switched to frosting.
Both are bi-syllabic, end in “-ing”, and both have /s/ phonemes as codas of the first syllable that might have facilitated the blend.
The other day when I got home from classes, my dad ended up getting home at the same time. He came out of his car with groceries, and I had seen him come home with groceries twice already that day. I said, “Isn’t that the third time you’ve gotten to get food?” I did a sentence-level blend of “gotten food” and “gone to get food,” which was probably worsened by the fact that both gotten and gone have the [g] and the [n] phonemes.
From Professor Tweedy -
Blend of “Barak” and “Obama”, probably occurred very late at the articulatory level. An instance of two items in the articulatory stream being articulated together.
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