Figure 1. Distributions of within-word landing positions for words of length 7 (as an example).

Letter position 0 is the space to the left of the word. Experimentally observed distributions (blue) are modulated by the distance of the launch site (the panels show distances between –7 and 5). Positive launch sites indicate refixations of the same word, which often lead to bimodal distributions (e.g., launch site = 3, 4). Estimated distributions (red) show a reduced standard deviation due to subtraction of mislocated fixations.