Coding grammatical errors in language samples

[Beverly Flanigan]

Strictly an orthographic error.  The writer knows perfectly well what the
base forms are.  It drives me crazy, but it's not a linguistic error, any
more than written its=it's=its' is.

At 04:52 PM 9/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>I couldn't resist passing this bit of email I just received
>on to the info-childes list in the context of the present
>discussion:  In reply to an email of thanks,  I received
>this reply:
>
> > Your welcome!
>
>How do we think about this kind of 'error'?
>
>   -- Jay McClelland