Righting errors in writing errors: The Wing and Baddeley (1980) spelling error corpus revisited

Authors: Wing, Alan¹; Baddeley, Alan²

Source: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Volume 26, Number 2, March 2009 , pp. 223-226(4)

Publisher: Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

We present a new analysis of our previously published corpus of handwriting errors (slips) using the proportional allocation algorithm of Machtynger and Shallice (2009). As previously, the proportion of slips is greater in the middle of the word than at the ends, however, in contrast to before, the proportion is greater at the end than at the beginning of the word. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis of memory effects in a graphemic output buffer.

Keywords: Handwriting; Spelling; Error distribution; Serial position curve; Normalized word length

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643290902823612

Affiliations: 1: University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 2: University of York, York, UK

Publication date: 2009-03-01

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