En este trabajo se examina, a través de dos estudios, el fenómeno de la “punta de la lengua” (PL, TOT en la literatura internacional) en el idioma castellano. En el estudio 1, 101 sujetos contestaron un cuestionario retrospetivo sobre la ocurrencia de PLs en situaciones naturales cotidianas. Los resultados sugieren que el fenómeno PL constituye una experiencia familiar a todos los hablantes, sucede promedialmente en torno a una vez por semana, es causado frecuentemente por nombres propios, el hablante tiene en mucho casos información estructural relevante sobre la palabra buscada, y con frecuencia los PLs se acompañan de la presencia de otras palabras persistentes distintas de la buscada. En el estudio 2, estos hallazgos básicos resultan replicados en un estudio de laboratorio con 1 (02 sujetos y siguiendo la metodología experimental de Brown y McNeill (1966). Los datos muestran, además, una moderad correlacción negativa de -0.35 entre frecuencia léxica de los estímulos y el número de PLs elicitados por ellos, si bien no sólo las palabras de baja frecuencia son las únicas que causan estados PL. Por otra parte, surge una relación significativa de signo negativo entre la presencia durante un PL de palabras alternativas persistentes y la probabilidad de resolución inmediata del PL. Esta relación apoya la hipótesis del bloqueo sobre el fenómeno PL y los resultados son interpretados desde la perspectiva del modelo de Burke et al. (1991).
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