The effect of word and character frequency on the eye movements of Chinese readers

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 259-268

  Yan, Guoli ^a   Tian, Hongjie ^a   Bai, Xuejun ^a   Rayner, Keith ^b,c  

^a TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERIODICITY; READING;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PERIODICITY; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33646893908     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712605X70066     Document Type: Article

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