Word length and landing position effects during reading in children and adults.

Holly Joseph; Simon Liversedge; Hazel Blythe; Sarah White; Keith Rayner

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.015

Word length and landing position effects during reading in children and adults.

Holly Joseph, Simon Liversedge, Hazel Blythe, Sarah White, Keith Rayner

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Abstract

The present study examined the effects of word length on children’s eye movement behaviour when other variables were carefully controlled. Importantly, the results showed that word length influenced children’s reading times and fixation positions on words. Furthermore, children exhibited stronger word length effects than adults in gaze durations and refixations. Adults and children generally did not differ in initial landing positions, but did differ in refixation behaviour. Overall, the results indicated that while adults and children show similar effects of word length for early measures of eye movement behaviour, differences emerge in later measures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2078-2086
Journal	Vision Research
Volume	49
Issue number	16
Early online date	28 May 2009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.015
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2009
Externally published	Yes

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