Reading Spaced and Unspaced Chinese Text: Evidence from Eye Movements

Autor/inn/en	Bai, Xuejun; Yan, Guoli; Liversedge, Simon P.; Zang, Chuanli; Rayner, Keith
Titel	Reading Spaced and Unspaced Chinese Text: Evidence from Eye Movements
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34 (2008) 5, S.1277-1287 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Eye Movements; Human Body; Chinese; Experiments; Reading Processes; Comparative Analysis; Word Recognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Menschlicher Körper; China; Chinesen; Erprobung; Leseprozess; Worterkennung
Abstract	Native Chinese readers' eye movements were monitored as they read text that did or did not demark word boundary information. In Experiment 1, sentences had 4 types of spacing: normal unspaced text, text with spaces between words, text with spaces between characters that yielded nonwords, and finally text with spaces between every character. The authors investigated whether the introduction of spaces into unspaced Chinese text facilitates reading and whether the word or, alternatively, the character is a unit of information that is of primary importance in Chinese reading. Global and local measures indicated that sentences with unfamiliar word spaced format were as easy to read as visually familiar unspaced text. Nonword spacing and a space between every character produced longer reading times. In Experiment 2, highlighting was used to create analogous conditions: normal Chinese text, highlighting that marked words, highlighting that yielded nonwords, and highlighting that marked each character. The data from both experiments clearly indicated that words, and not individual characters, are the unit of primary importance in Chinese reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10