The Effects of Spaces on Word Segmentation in Chinese Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Pingping; Lu, Qin
Titel	The Effects of Spaces on Word Segmentation in Chinese Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Reading, 41 (2018) 2, S.329-349 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-0423
DOI	10.1111/1467-9817.12106
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Chinese; Reading Processes; Orthographic Symbols; Language Processing; Phonemes; Reading Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; China; Chinesen; Leseprozess; Sprachverarbeitung; Fonem; Leseforschung
Abstract	This paper studies the mechanisms behind the differential effects of inserting a space either before or after a two-character unit on information processing through the examination of eye movements in Chinese, a language where there is no word delimiters. A two-character unit in this study is either a word-preserving stimulus or a word-disrupting stimulus (i.e., nonword). The study aims for a better understanding of the cognitive mechanisms for lexical processing that may underlie observed facilitory or inhibitory effects of the spacing conditions in sentence context. Results show that inserting a space after a word facilitates lexical processing, but inserting a space before a word does not. Inserting a space before and after a nonword, however, does not show these effects. These results indicate that the effects of spaces before and after words are mainly influenced by word segmentation mechanisms rather than landing position effects or other factors. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01