The Effects of Frequency and Predictability on Eye Fixations in Reading: Implications for the E-Z Reader Model

Autor/inn/en	Rayner, Keith; Ashby, Jane; Pollatsek, Alexander; Reichle, Erik D.
Titel	The Effects of Frequency and Predictability on Eye Fixations in Reading: Implications for the E-Z Reader Model
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30 (2004) 4, S.720-732 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Eye Movements; Word Recognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Worterkennung
Abstract	Readers read sentences containing target words varying in frequency and predictability. The observed pattern of data for fixation durations only mildly departed from additivity, with predictability effects that were slightly larger for low-frequency than for high-frequency words. The pattern of data for skipping was different as predictability affected only the probability of skipping for high-frequency target words. Simulations of these data using the E-Z Reader model indicated that a single-process model was unlikely to provide a good fit for both measures. A version of the model that assumes that (a) word-encoding time is additively affected by frequency and predictability and (b) difficulty with postlexical processing of the target word causes a double take accounted for the data while indicating that the relationship between the duration of hypothesized word-encoding stages and observed fixation durations is not likely to be transparent. (Author).
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