The influence of number of syllables on word skipping during reading
In an eye-tracking experiment, subjects read sentences containing a monosyllabic (e.g. grain) or a disyllabic (e.g. cargo) five-letter word. Monosyllabic target words were skipped more often than disyllabic target words, indicating that syllabic structure was extracted from the parafovea early enoug...
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2011-08.
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