TABLE 7c.

Most frequently occurring subtypes of spelling errors within triple-code categories for Tamil.

Spelling error measure	Total n	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Other errors	474	Substitution by irrelevant word/non-word (OT1 − n = 250)	No response (OT2 − n = 224)
Phonological errors	471	Consonant substitution (PT6 − n = 118)	Retroflex consonant substitution (PT7 − n = 109)	Similar sounding word substitution (PT10 − n = 50)
Graphemic-orthographic	75	Similar formed or structured grapheme substitution (GT1 − n = 71)	Addition, omission or substitution of diacritics (GT3 − n = 2)	Addition, omission or protrusion of strokes (GT2 − n = 2)
Morphological-semantic	4	Morpheme omission (MT2 − n = 4)	Substitution of semantically related word (MT1 – n = 0)

n, number of errors across the full sample of Tamil-speaking participants.