Eye movements and non-canonical reading: Comments on Kennedy and Pynte (2008)

Non-canonical reading: Reply to Rayner, Pollatsek, Liversedge and Reichle (2008)

Rayner, Pollatsek, Liversedge and Reichle offer a spirited critique of our paper (Kennedy & Pynte, 2008). Their argument is that our data were obtained selectively, that the effects reported are not typical of normal reading and, in any case, do not pose particularly severe theoretical problems for serial models of reading like E–Z Reader. In this rebuttal we follow the organisation of their Co...

The consequences of violations to reading order: An eye movement analysis

Adjective-Noun and Noun-Adjective sequences inspected with single fixations in the French part of the Dundee Corpus were examined. Violations to canonical reading order produced significant effects on average inspection time, but only for fixations on the two words concerned and the immediately following fixation. Extended analyses on both English and French data sets also show local consequenc...

Reprint of “Non-canonical reading: Reply to Rayner, Pollatsek, Liversedge and Reichle” [Vision Research 49/14 (2008) 1916–1918]

Parafoveal-on-foveal effects in normal reading

A corpus of eye movement data derived from 10 English and 10 French participants, each reading about 50,000 words, was examined for evidence that properties of a word in parafoveal vision have an immediate effect on foveal inspection time. When inspecting a short word, there is evidence that the lexical frequency of an adjacent word affects processing time. When inspecting a long word, there ar...

The influence of punctuation and word class on distributed processing in normal reading

A series of multiple regression analyses was conducted on a corpus of eye movement data to examine whether the influence of properties of words n-1 and n+1 on the time spent fixating word n changes as a function of whether word n is associated with a punctuation mark (i.e., whether or not a punctuation mark separates word n from either word n-1 or word n+1). The results suggest that distributed...