Why do readers fail to notice word transpositions, omissions, and repetitions? A review of recent evidence and theory.

Most readers have had the experience of initially failing to notice an omission or repetition of a function word, or a transposition of two adjacent words. In the present article, we review recent research investigating this phenomenon. We emphasize that failure to notice such errors is of substanti...

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Published in:	Language & Linguistics Compass Vol. 15; no. 7; pp. 1 - 18
Main Authors:	Kuan-Jung Huang, Staub, Adrian
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jul2021
Subjects:	Eye movements Parallel processing Evidence Inference (Logic)
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