Research on phonetic dissimilation has traditionally focussed on cases of dissimilation attested in language change. By contrast, the present study, referring the concept of dissimilation both to the process of speech production and on its output, examines instances of consonant dissimilation from the speech error corpora compiled by Rudolf Meringer, Bernhard Kettemann, and by the author herself. - After a detailed description of major speech error categories followed by a critical evaluation of statistically weighted sound frequency data as well as a precise assessment of speaker...