Letter transpositions in words: Application of a fixed‐constraint model
Gregory V. Jones · British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology · 1982
Considerable recent work has been devoted to investigation of the occurrence and effects of letter transpositions within words. Their occurrence has been studied in disorders of reading and writing, and their effects studied experimentally using for example lexical decision tasks. With the publication of empirically compiled tables of anagrammatic frequencies it becomes possible to test a model of the distributions of orthographically defined words of this type. The model rests upon the simplifying assumption that the constraint imposed by the specification of each letter of each verbal item may be taken as fixed.