Not all grammar errors are equally noticed: error detection of naturally occurring errors and implications for eye-tracking models of everyday texts.

ABSTRACT: Grammar errors are a natural part of everyday written communication. They are not a uniform group, but vary from morphological errors to ungrammatical word order and involve different types of word classes. In this study, we examine whether some types of naturally occurring errors attract more attention than others during reading, measured by detection rates. Data from 211 Danish high school students were included in the analysis. They each read texts containing different types of errors: syntactic errors (verb-third word order), morphological agreement errors (verb conjugations; gender mismatches in NPs) and orthographic errors. Participants were asked to underline all errors they detected while reading for comprehension. We examined whether there was a link between the type of errors tha

SUBMITTER: Soby KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10373887 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature