How important are linguistic factors in word skipping during reading?
The probability of skipping a word is influenced by its processing ease. For instance, a word that is predictable from the preceding context is skipped more often than an unpredictable word. A meta-analysis of studies examining this predictability effect reported effect sizes ranging from 0 to 13%,...
| Published in: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 98; no. 1; pp. 157 - 172 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
February 2007
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