Transfer of Fluency Across Repetitions and Across Texts

Three experiments examined transfer of reading fluency across repeated readings of the same text and across related but different texts. In Experiment 1, we demonstrated that a paraphrase that altered the syntactic structure of sentences, but not the lexical identity of main concepts or the unfolding of the message, was reprocessed as an unchanged repetition. However, when the paraphrase altered the lexical identity of main concepts, even …