Using Eye Movements to Investigate Word Frequency Effects in Children's Sentence ReadingFootnote

Portions of these data were presented at the 2011 meeting of the European Conference on Eye Movements in Marseilles, France. This research was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) postdoctoral fellowship (PTA-026–27-1912) to the first author, an ESRC grant (RES-000–22-4652) to the first and second authors, and ESRC grants (RES-000–22-4128 and ES/I032398/1) to the third author. The authors thank the parents and children who took part in this experiment as unpaid volunteers.

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