Word frequency and predictability effects in reading French: An evaluation of the E-Z Reader model
- Miellet, Sebastien Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
- Sparrow, Laurent University of Lille 3, France
- Sereno, Sara, C. Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
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2007
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French readers’ eye movements were monitored as they read a passage of text. Initial global analyses of word frequency, accounting for the majority of fixations in the text, revealed a good fit between the observed data and the simulated data from the E-Z Reader 7 model of eye movement control. However, the model did not perform as well on simulations of contextual predictability effects. A subset of 20 controlled words from the passage were used to examine the combined effects of frequency and predictability. Results from the observed data showed main effects of frequency and predictability but no interaction. With certain modifications, the E-Z Reader 7 model was able to adequately simulate the pattern of data. Although the E-Z Reader model successfully accounted for the present data, we believe that further modifications will be necessary in order to better account for data in the literature.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Psychology
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 27179
- DOI 10.3758/BF03196834
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301989
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