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Peer reviewedHaberlandt, Karl; Graesser, Arthur C. – Discourse Processes, 1989
Describes two subject-paced reading experiments in which word-reading times were collected using the moving-window method. Finds that reading times of content words increase more steeply than reading times for function words. Discusses results in terms of buffer models of reading, the processing of different lexical classes, and hypotheses which…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Function Words
