Masataka Yano

Readers can recognise multiple words at a glance but out of order: Evidence from transposed word effects in Japanese

Readers find it difficult to reject ungrammatical sentences with two adjacent words transposed (e.g. I met my friend kind at the station), and they sometimes misclassify such sentences as grammatical—a phenomenon known as the transposed word effect. According to the parallel processing model, readers simultaneously pro...