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Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension

Trevor Brothers, Gina R. Kuperberg

Journal of Memory and Language, 2021. DOI 10.1016/j.jml.2020.104174

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 failed. The earliest on record is from 2026.

Replications

• Predictability Effects in Natural Reading are Logarithmic: Evidence from an Eye-Movement Replication of Brothers and Kuperberg (2021), Buggy et al. (2026). Outcome recorded: failed. While several previous corpus studies have obtained evidence for a logarithmic relationship, Brothers and Kuperberg (2021) obtained evidence for a linear relationship in a large self-paced reading study with well-controlled experimental materials. Here, we use Brothers and Kuperberg's materials in an eyetracking-during-reading experiment. We find clear evidence for a logarithmic relationship between predictability and the eye movement measures of first fixation duration and… Outcome read from the abstract. View paper

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Brothers, T., & Kuperberg, G. R. (2021). Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 116, 104174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104174

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