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THE
EFFECT
OF
SENTENCE
LENGTH
duced
may
make
the
text
easier
to
read.
11
However,
it
may
be
that
this
factor
yields
diminishing
returns,
and
that
with
very
short
sentences
and
long
texts
the
repetitions
may
grow
tiresome.
The
intricate
links
of
sentence
length
with
other
factors
do
not
make
it
possible
to
state
any
hard
and
fast
rules
of
good
writing.
Our
experiment
only
serves
to
show
that
when
it
is
isolated
as
far
as
possible
from
other
factors,
sentence
length
seems
to
have
little
effect
on
readability.
11
But
will
the
total
time
taken
to
read
it
be
less
than
that
taken
to
read
a
shorter
version
containing
no
redundancy?
In
a
study
by
Miller
(1958),
sub-
jects
were
required
to
learn
strings
of
letters.
With
redundant
strings,
more
letters
were
learned
but
less
information
was
conveyed
(cf.
also
Aborn
and
Rubenstein,
1952;
Rubenstein
and
Aborn,
1954;
Hogan,
1961).
Experiments
on
discrimination
times
of
figures
with
redundant
cues
are
also
relevant
here
(Schlesinger
1965a,
1965b).
The
case
of
written
material
with
varying
degrees
of
redundancy
seems
to
merit
further
study.
Table of contents
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Syntactic Constituent as Unit of Decoding
- 3. Effects of Grammatical Transformations
- 4. The Effect of Sentence Length
- 5. The Effect of Syntactic Complexity
- 6. Syntactic and Semantic Decoding
- 7. Sentences Beginning with Semantically Indeterminate Words
- 8. Suggestions for Future Research in Readability
- References