Morphological Structure Influences Saccade Generation in Chinese Reading

Autor/inn/en	Luo, Yingyi; Tan, Dixiao; Yan, Ming
Titel	Morphological Structure Influences Saccade Generation in Chinese Reading
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 36 (2023) 5, S.1339-1355 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yan, Ming)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-022-10325-y
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Reading Processes; Eye Movements; Chinese; Language Processing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Leseprozess; Augenbewegung; China; Chinesen; Sprachverarbeitung
Abstract	Recent studies have demonstrated that saccadic programming in reading is not only determined by low-level visual factors. High-level morphological effects on saccade have been shown in two morphologically rich languages. In the present study, we examined the underlying mechanism of such morphological influences by comparing the processes of reading three-character Chinese compound words that differ in their structures in terms of morphological decomposition. Consistent with earlier reports, our results showed an effect of morphological structure on saccade. The readers' first-fixation location shifted further away from the beginning of the word, when the last two characters were more morphologically bounded and thus formed a [1 + 2] structure, than when the first two characters were more bounded (i.e., a [2 + 1] structure). The results are not accountable by a processing difficulty hypothesis, which proposes that saccade amplitude is determined by morphological complexity; rather, they suggest that Chinese readers parafoveally decompose a word and spontaneously target its longer stem, thus reflecting parafoveal access to words' stems. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01