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Transposed-word effects when reading serially.

Jonathan Mirault^1,2, Aaron Vandendaele³, Felipe Pegado^1,2

¹Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.

|November 10, 2022

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Transposed-word effects in grammar judgments are robust under serial reading, but only impact error rates, not response times. This differs from parallel reading, suggesting reading strategy influences error detection.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Psychology
Reading Science

Background:

Readers experience greater difficulty judging grammaticality when sentences contain transposed words compared to other ungrammatical forms.
Prior research indicates transposed-word effects impact both response times and error rates in parallel reading.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate transposed-word effects under serial reading conditions using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP).
To compare serial RSVP reading with parallel presentation to understand how reading strategy influences grammatical judgment.
To determine if transposed-word effects manifest differently in error rates versus response times based on presentation method.

Main Methods:

Experiments 1 and 2 employed RSVP to present ungrammatical sentences, with participants responding at the end or as soon as possible.
Experiment 3 directly compared RSVP (serial) with parallel presentation using identical stimuli and participants.
Grammaticality judgments were collected, analyzing both response times and error rates.

Main Results:

Robust transposed-word effects were observed in error rates under all RSVP (serial) conditions.
Transposed-word effects were not significant in response times under serial RSVP conditions.
In contrast, parallel presentation (Experiment 3) showed effects in both error rates and response times, consistent with prior work.

Conclusions:

Serial reading strategies, like those imposed by RSVP, appear to isolate transposed-word effects to error detection rather than response speed.
The findings suggest that the cognitive mechanisms underlying transposed-word effects may be modulated by the constraints of the reading presentation method.
Further research is needed to fully elucidate the processing differences between serial and parallel reading in grammatical error detection.