ABSTRACT
If words are to be identified by means of their letters, the discriminations the reader must make are, in general, much finer than those called for in the perception of objects. For the reader, re-inspections represent the freedom to produce alternative analyses of text. Much of this re-analysis may be restricted to sorting out the identity of individual words, but some will relate in an interesting fashion to the structure and meaning of what is being read as a whole. Radical proposal suggests that the reader is released from many of the obligations imposed on the hearer. The key question, of course, is what (if any) influences are exerted over eye movements by properties of the text being scanned? Are the eyes attracted towards significant words? Does the structure or the meaning of what is being read influence eye movements? In short, what determines where the reader looks.
