Perceptual Span in Reading "Aksharic" Kannada

Autor/inn/en	Pandey, Aparna; Padakannaya, Prakash
Titel	Perceptual Span in Reading "Aksharic" Kannada
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 36 (2023) 9, S.2499-2521 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Padakannaya, Prakash)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-022-10390-3
Schlagwörter	Dravidian Languages; Visual Perception; Reading Skills; Eye Movements; Sentences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Augenbewegung; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse
Abstract	Perceptual span, the effective visual field in reading covered in a single fixation, varies across orthographies. The perceptual span for reading English covers 3-4-character spaces to the left of fixation and around 14-15-character spaces to the right of the fixation while for Chinese it is one character space to the left and 3-character spaces to the right of the fixation. In the present study, we estimated the perceptual span for Kannada, a major South Indian language written in akshara (abugida type) using the gaze-contingent moving window paradigm. We recorded eye movements from skilled Kannada readers when they read sentences in different window sizes and compared the eye movement measures with that of full-length sentence reading. Results showed that the perceptual span for Kannada covers one akshara to the left and 6-akshara to the right of the fixation. Future studies need to establish whether all Akshara orthographies show a similar percentual span. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01