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Please stop using word frequency data that are likely to be word length effects in disguise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

Marc Brysbaert  and
Denis Drieghe
Marc Brysbaert*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdomhttp://psyserver.pc.rhbnc.ac.uk/staff/mbrysbaert.html
Denis Drieghe*
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, B-9000Ghent, Belgiumhttp://allserv.rug.ac.be/~ddrieghe/
*
marc.brysbaert@rhul.ac.uk
denis.drieghe@rug.ac.be
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Abstract:

Reichle et al. claim to successfully simulate a frequency effect of 60% on skipping rate in human data, whereas the original article reports an effect of only 4%. We suspect that the deviation is attributable to the length of the words in the different conditions, which implies that E-Z Reader is wrong in its conception of eye guidance between words.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , August 2003 , pp. 479
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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