An experiment in typing is described in which the visual spacing in the text and the amount of linguistic structure in the material are varied. The results show that average typing speed is decreased both by removing visual spaces from the text and by decreasing the amount of structure in the material. The data are interpreted as evidence that there is response grouping in a typist's output, and a model is stated in which this grouping is attributed to the operation of a response-unit scanner. More detailed analysis by means of this model suggests a picture of serial and parallel information processing to be an adequate representation of the conversion of text into type.
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