creators_name: Brysbaert, Marc
creators_name: Vitu, Francoise
creators_id: mbrysbaert
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editors_name: Underwood, G.
type: bookchapter
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title: Word skipping: Implications for theories of eye movement control in reading
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subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: eye movements, reading, skipping
abstract: This chapter provides a meta-analysis of the factors that govern word skipping in reading. It is concluded that the primary predictor is the length of the word to be skipped. A much smaller effect is due to the processing ease of the word (e.g., the frequency of the word and its predictability in the sentence).
date: 1998
date_type: published
publication: Eye guidance in reading and scene perception
publisher: Elsevier
pagerange: 125-147
refereed: TRUE
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