Table 7.
The rate of different types of neglect errors in words ending with a root letter vs. words ending with an affix.
| Ending with a root letter | Ending with an affix letter | Comparison | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Errors/Total | % Errors | Errors/Total | % Errors | ||
| ERROR TYPE | |||||
| Omission | 1/84 | 1 | 37/211 | 18 | B = −2.87, p = 0.005 |
| Substitution | 19/232 | 8 | 42/273 | 15 | B = −0.71, p = 0.02 |
| Addition | 18/158 | 11 | 2/18 | 11 | B = 0.03, p = 0.97 |
| COMPARISONS BETWEEN ERROR TYPES | |||||
| Omissions-substitutions | B = −2.00, p = 0.05 | B = 0.16, p = 0.53 | |||
| Omissions-additions | B = −2.37, p = 0.02 | B = 0.01, p = 0.99 | |||
| Substitutions-additions | B = −0.37, p = 0.29 | B = 0.38, p = 0.63 | |||
The analysis summarized in this table includes only words with the relevant lexical potential for each type of error, only lexical neglect errors, and excluding errors that occurred after the first or second letter.