A medieval scribe transcribing a Latin manuscript switches from dictation to copying from an exemplar, why might transcription errors related to *phoneme drift* become more frequent?

💡 Explanation

The loss of phonological grounding from dictation makes grapheme-to-phoneme conversion less salient, and therefore increases ambiguity between visually similar letters. Because the scribe is no longer processing the auditory stream for phonemes, letter confusions increase, rather than improvements in pattern recognition, which require a different cognitive mechanism.

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