In an eyetracking experiment we investigated how lexical repetition during
sentence reading is modulated by sentence structure. Target words were
repeated or new (repetition was infelicitous) and could appear in a simple
sentence or embedded in an RC. Although we observed higher skipping rates
for repeated versus new words regardless of sentence structure, all
fixation duration measures showed interactions such that there were longer
times for repeated versus new words in the simple sentence condition, but
no such effects in the RCs. The results provide important information
regarding the cognitive mechanisms involved in word recognition during
reading.