Snopes investigating.
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp
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A January 2003 paper by researchers at the University of Edinburgh about "sublexical units and the split fovea" has been cited as an example of this type of research
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http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pjm21/papers/LCP.pdf
that's the paper linked to and mentioned.