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Peer reviewedHaber, Ralph Norman; Schindler, Robert M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
Subjects instructed to circle misspellings while reading prose were less likely to detect misspellings in function than in content words. Misspellings that changed the shape of a word were more likely to be detected. It is not clear whether differences between function and content words are due to familiarity or redundancy. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adults, Error Analysis (Language), Function Words, Language Patterns
