Linguistic and nonlinguistic influences on the eyes' landing positions during reading
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Running head: EYE LANDING POSITIONS DURING READING Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Influences on the Eyes’ Landing Positions During Reading
Two eye tracking experiments show that, for near launch sites, the eyes land nearer to the beginning of words with orthographically irregular than regular initial letter sequences. In addition, the characteristics of words, at least at the level of orthography, influence the direction and length of within word saccades. Importantly, these effects hold both for lower case and visually less disti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1747-0218,1747-0226
DOI: 10.1080/02724980543000024