Reading monomorphemic and compound words in Chinese

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Lei Cui ◽  
Tuomo Häikiö ◽  
Wenxin Zhang ◽  
Yuwei Zheng ◽  
Jukka Hyönä
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Word Type ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Frequency Effect ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Recognition Time ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
Dual Route Model

Abstract Two lexical decision experiments were conducted to study the recognition of two-character Chinese monomorphemic and compound words by adult native Chinese readers. In Experiment 1, the words appeared non-spaced, whereas in Experiment 2 a space was inserted between the two characters. An interaction between word type and spacing reflects a trend for spacing to slow down the recognition of monomorphemic words and speed up that of compound words. The word frequency effect was steeper for monomorphemic than compound words. The number of strokes in the first and the second character influenced the recognition time for compound words, but not for monomorphemic words. The results are interpreted in the light of the parallel dual route model of morphological processing. The holistic route is more prevalent in recognizing Chinese monomorphemic, while the morphological decomposition route is more prevalent in processing Chinese compound words.

Demythologizing the word frequency effect

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Baayen
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Frequency Effect ◽  
Predictors Of Response ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
Dual Route Model

This study starts from the hypothesis, first advanced by McDonald and Shillcock (2001), that the word frequency effect for a large part reflects local syntactic co-occurrence. It is shown that indeed the word frequency effect in the sense of pure repeated exposure accounts for only a small proportion of the variance in lexical decision, and that local syntactic and morphological co-occurrence probabilities are what makes word frequency a powerful predictor for lexical decision latencies. A comparison of two computational models, the cascaded dual route model (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001) and the Naive Discriminative Reader (Baayen, Milin, Filipovic Durdjevic, Hendrix, & Marelli, 2010), indicates that only the latter model properly captures the quantitative weight of the latent dimensions of lexical variation as predictors of response times. Computational models that account for frequency of occurrence by some mechanism equivalent to a counter in the head therefore run the risk of overestimating the role of frequency as repetition, of overestimating the importance of words’ form properties, and of underestimating the importance of contextual learning during past experience in proficient reading.

scholarly journals An eye-tracking study of reading long and short novel and lexicalized compound words

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jukka Hyönä ◽  
Alexander Pollatsek ◽  
Minna Koski ◽  
Henri Olkoniemi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Acuity ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Race Model ◽  
Head Noun ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Sentence Reading ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
Path Duration ◽  
Dual Route

An eye-tracking experiment examined the recognition of novel and lexicalized compound words during sentence reading. The frequency of the head noun in modifier-head compound words was manipulated to tap into the degree of compositional processing. This was done separately for long (12–16 letter) and short (7-9 letters) compound words. Based on the dual-route race model (Pollatsek et al., 2000) and the visual acuity principle (Bertram & Hyönä, 2003), long lexicalized and novel compound words were predicted to be processed via the decomposition route and short lexicalized compound words via the holistic route. Gaze duration and selective regression-path duration demonstrated a constituent frequency effect of similar size for long lexicalized and novel compound words. For short compound words the constituent frequency effect was negligible for lexicalized words but robust for novel words. The results are consistent with the visual acuity principle that assumes long novel compound words to be recognized via the decomposition route and short lexicalized compound words via the holistic route.

Dual and Single Route Models for Beginning Readers

2009 ◽  
Vol 217 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Maris ◽  
Rinske de Graaff Stoffers
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Phonological Recoding ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Multinomial Processing Tree ◽  
Single Mechanism ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
Dual Route Model

There has been a lot of attention for the idea that the reading of a single word (visual word recognition) involves a single mechanism only. This mechanism first maps the orthographic input onto a sublexical phonological code via which, in a second step, the lexicon is accessed. This mechanism is called a single route phonological model, and it should be contrasted with a dual route model, which also assumes an orthographic route. This orthographic route maps the orthographic input onto a lexical orthographic code without phonological recoding. In this paper, both the single route phonological and the dual route models were formulated as multinomial processing tree (MPT) models. These two MPT models were applied to the data of two experiments in which the participants (children in Grades 1 and 2) had to give a combined naming and lexical decision response to four types of stimuli (words and three types of nonwords). The dual route model gave a much better explanation of these data than the single route phonological model.

scholarly journals Dual-stage and dual-deficit? Word recognition processes during text reading across the reading fluency continuum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarkko Hautala ◽  
Stefan Hawelka ◽  
Mikko Aro
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Word Length ◽  
Fixation Duration ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Frequency Effect ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Dual Stage ◽  
Dual Route

AbstractCentral questions in the study of visual word recognition and developmental dyslexia are whether early lexical activation precedes and supports decoding (a dual-stage view) or not (dual-route view), and the locus of deficits in dysfluent reading. The dual-route view predicts early word frequency and length interaction, whereas the dual-stage view predicts word frequency effect to precede the interaction effect. These predictions were tested on eye movements data collected from (n = 152) children aged 9–10 among whom reading dysfluency was overrepresented. In line with the dual-stage view, the results revealed an early word frequency effect in first fixation duration followed by robust word length effect in refixation probability and an interaction of word frequency and word length in summed refixation duration. This progression was advanced in fluent reading to be observable already in first fixation duration. Poor reading fluency was mostly explained by inflated first fixation durations, and to stronger word frequency and length effects in summed refixation duration. This pattern of results suggests deficits in early letter encoding and slowness in serial grapheme-phoneme conversion. In contrast to the widely held belief, the holistic orthographic processing of words seemed to be intact.

scholarly journals Is a Step through the Door a Way to Take a Doorstep? A Psycholinguistic Study on Polish Compound Words

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 205-230
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Hwaszcz
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Mental Lexicon ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Complex Words ◽  
Test Current

The present study concentrates on the organization of the mental lexicon with regard to semantic transparency in the representation of Polish compounds. Its aim was to test current approaches to the processing of morphologically complex words in a lexical decision experiment with the use of visually presented Polish compound and simple words. The existing psycholinguistic approaches centre around the same question: are complex words parsed into their constituent parts or are they stored as full-word representations in the human mental lexicon? I referred to five widely acknowledged models of morphological processing to account for the outcomes of the present study. The data reveal that: i transparent compounds primed by words semantically related to the heads of these transparent compounds elicited faster response times than opaque compounds within the same condition; and ii priming speeds up the processing for both transparent and opaque compounds. The results indicate that the processing of Polish compound words is influenced by semantic transparency and that both transparent and opaque compounds are decomposed into their constituents prior to lexical access.

The Effects of Base Frequency and Affix Productivity in Spanish

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Lázaro López-Villaseñor
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Base Frequency ◽  
Pair Comparisons ◽  
Complex Words ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
First Time ◽  
Pair Analysis ◽  
Morphological Representation

In this study we present the results of a lexical decision experiment where the variables manipulated are Base frequency and Affix productivity. The results show significant main effects for both variables for the first time in Spanish, as well as for the interaction between the two. However, pair analysis shows that the Base Frequency effect is not significant when the Affix Productivity is low, while the Affix Productivity effect is produced regardless of the Base Frequency. The results for the main effects show a morphological representation in the lexicon, whilst the results of pair comparisons suggest a different representation of stems and affixes in the lexicon. These results support the idea that complex words incorporating unproductive affixes are processed differently from words incorporating productive affixes. The results are finally explained in terms of a hierarchical model of morphological processing.

scholarly journals The word frequency effect in lexical decision: Finding a frequency-based component

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Gardner ◽  
E. Z. Rothkopf ◽  
Richard Lapan ◽  
Toby Lafferty
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Frequency Effect

Orthographic constraints and frequency effects in complex word identification

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludo Verhoeven ◽  
R. H. Baayen ◽  
Robert Schreuder
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Word Identification ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Adult Readers ◽  
Word Decoding ◽  
Strong Negative Correlation ◽  
Initial Syllable ◽  
Dual Route ◽  
Dual Route Model

In an experimental study we explored the role of word frequency and orthographic constraints in the reading of Dutch bisyllabic words. Although Dutch orthography is highly regular, several deviations from a one-to-one correspondence occur. In polysyllabic words, the grapheme E may represent three different vowels: /ε /, /e/, or /œ /. In the experiment, skilled adult readers were presented lists of bisyllabic words containing the vowel E in the initial syllable and the same grapheme or another vowel in the second syllable. We expected word frequency to be related to word latency scores. On the basis of general word frequency data, we also expected the interpretation of the initial syllable as a stressed /e/ to be facilitated as compared to the interpretation of an unstressed /œ /. We found a strong negative correlation between word frequency and latency scores. Moreover, for words with E in either syllable we found a preference for a stressed /e/ interpretation, indicating a lexical frequency effect. The results are discussed with reference to a parallel dual-route model of word decoding.

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