RETRACTION: The Understanding of Complex Syntax in Children From 5 to 9 Years, Using a Novel Assessment Approach - The Test of Complex Syntax- Electronic (TECS-E).

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International journal of language & communication disorders. Volume 61. Issue 6.

Abstract

P. Frizelle, A. Oliveira-Buckley, T. Biancone, J. Oliveira, P. Fletcher, D.V.M. Bishop, and C. McKean, "The Understanding of Complex Syntax in Children From 5 to 9 Years, Using a Novel Assessment Approach - The Test of Complex Syntax- Electronic (TECS-E)," International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 60, no. 4 (2025): e70079, https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.70079. The above article, published online on 10 July 2025 in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editors-in-Chief, Jill Titterington and Clare McCann; the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following publication, concerns were raised on PubPeer regarding statistical errors in the article and those concerns were addressed by the authors [1]. The authors contacted the editors to request retraction, confirming the following errors: inconsistencies in the reported sample sizes; incorrect p-values for the correlation analyses; and incorrect degrees of freedom reported for the ANOVA. The authors agree with the PubPeer comments that the multiple testing is likely to lead to false positives, and that the conclusions are too strong. While the main effects of the paper were correct, they note that the interactions are nonsignificant when the analyses are properly specified. Due to these errors, the article must be retracted.​ A revised version is forthcoming. References [1] Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava and Dorothy V.M. Bishop, "The Understanding of Complex Syntax in Children From 5 to 9 Years, Using a Novel Assessment Approach - The Test of Complex Syntax- Electronic (TECS-E)," PubPeer, 2026, https://pubpeer.com/publications/E4FD07BFB35C4A690778A149A304DF.

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