A Distibutional Analysis of Frequency and Predictability Effects on Fixation Durations in Reading

The most important predictors of fixation durations in reading are a word’s frequency of occurrence (as measured by counts in large corpora) and its predictability in context (as measured by cloze probability). Two recent eye-tracking studies investigated distributional effects of word frequency (St...

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Main Author: Benatar, Ashley
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2012
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/834
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1945&context=theses