Minor production difficulties termed slips of the tongue have been investigated as possible clues to the way our linguistic knowledge may be organised within the brain. Slips of the tongue tell us about the structure and organisation of the mental dictionary, the storage house of all the words a speaker of a language knows. This edition explains how words are stored in the mental lexicon using evidence from Shona slips of the tongue. It emphasizes that words are not stored independently in the mental lexicon, but in relation to each other. This implies that words in the mind are ...