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Title: An experimental study of the eye-voice span in reading
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Buswell, Guy T. (Guy Thomas), 1891-
Subjects: Reading, Psychology of Eye
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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5 occurred atthe end of sentences. For the high-school selections, Plate IV, positionsI and 4 occurred at the beginning, positions 5, 6, and 7 within, andpositions 2, 3, and 8 at the end of sentences. Table IV gives the eye-voice span at each of the positions for theelementary-school subjects. It should be read as follows: Subject Ei, a THK EYE-VOICE SPAN 43 good reader from the second ^niide, liiid an eye-voire span of i8 Ictter-s))aees at llu- first ))()sitioii, wliich was al the word kitten in the selec-tion. At tile second position, wiiich was at the word wreath, his s))anwas i^^ lettcr-sixaces, etc. His average span was 11.8 letter-spaces,while the a\erage xariation among the i)ositi()ns was 2.5 letter-spaces.The second half of ilie tahle gives the data for the poor readers. Theaverages for each j)osition are given for both good and ()oor readers.I^igure 4 shows a comparison of these averages graphically, for bothgood and )K)or readers. The numbers on the horizontal axis refer to
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Fig. 4.—Average eye-voice span by position in sentence—elementary subjects.Position ai beginning (B), within (W), and end (E) of sentence shown on horizontalaxis. Width of eye-voice span shown on vertical axis. the number of the positions in the selection, while the letters B, W, andE are abbreviations for beginning, within, and end of a sentence. Thefigures on the vertical axis represent the width of the span in letter-spaces.The upper line is that of the good, and the low^r line is that of the poorreaders. Lines b and d, respectively, give the averages of the good andthe poor readers for all positions. The most noticeable deviations in the line a, for the good readers,occurred at positions numbers 3 and 5. These are the only positionsoccurring at the end of sentences. The shortening of the eye-voicespan here is relatively very great, and is entirely too pronounced to beaccidental. The good readers have evidently found that, for the sake / 44 A STUDY OF THE EYE-VOICE SPAN IN READ

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