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Brothers, Trevor; Traxler, Matthew J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Previous evidence suggests that grammatical constraints have a rapid influence during language comprehension, particularly at the level of word categories (noun, verb, preposition). These findings are in conflict with a recent study from Angele, Laishley, Rayner, and Liversedge (2014), in which sentential fit had no early influence on word…
Descriptors: Syntax, Grammar, Reading, Eye Movements
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Slattery, Timothy J.; Staub, Adrian; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
An important question in research on eye movements in reading is whether word frequency and word predictability have additive or interactive effects on fixation durations. A fair number of studies have reported only additive effects of the frequency and predictability of a target word on reading times on that word, failing to show significant…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Word Frequency, Reading