bracketingotosia
Bracketingotosia is a hypothetical cognitive-linguistic phenomenon used primarily in theoretical and educational discussions to describe difficulty in processing nested bracketing structures in written language. In this context, bracketingotosia refers to the tendency to misparse sentences where multiple levels of brackets—such as parentheses, square brackets, or braces—interfere with the reader’s ability to recover the intended syntactic structure, potentially slowing reading and reducing comprehension. It is not a clinically recognized disorder, and there is no established prevalence or etiological consensus.
The term is used in some scholarly discussions to illustrate how cognitive load from nesting brackets can
Reported manifestations in theoretical discussions include: increased reading time for texts with deep bracketing, higher incidence
Bracketingotosia is not clinically defined or diagnostically validated. In research settings, investigators may use bracket parsing
Pedagogical approaches aim to reduce cognitive load, such as simplifying nesting, using consistent bracketing styles, and