title: Redundancy in Children's Texts.
abstract: The sequential constraints of pairs of letters were computed for a series of graded readers. Information in single letters is about the same for all texts. Redundancy decreases with increasing grade in a regular way, while mean word length increases. A third reader has about the same redundancy as simple adult text. The constraints in a first reader are considerable, whereas those in a fifth reader approach those in average adult text.
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Carterette
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Jones