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Peer reviewedHealy, Alice F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1980
In three experiments, subjects read passages and circled misspelling in them. Results support the unitization hypothesis that common words are normally read in units larger than letters but are read in letter units when misspelled. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet), Prose
