A Study on Eye Movement of Korean Students Reading Chinese Texts with or without Marks for Word Boundaries

Author(s):  
Yu Peng ◽  
Liu Su
2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Cui ◽  
Guoli Yan ◽  
Xuejun Bai ◽  
Jukka Hyönä ◽  
Suiping Wang ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nai-Shing Yen ◽  
Jie-Li Tsai ◽  
Pei-Ling Chen ◽  
Hsuan-Yu Lin ◽  
Arbee L.P. Chen
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2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 1620-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guojie Ma ◽  
Ziang Li ◽  
Fengfeng Xu ◽  
Xingshan Li

Given there are no interword spaces marking word boundaries in Chinese text, it remains unclear how information about word length influences eye movement control during the reading of Chinese text. In this research, we set up strict controls for word frequency and other word properties, to study this knowledge gap. In Experiment 1A and Experiment 1B, a between-subjects design was used. Forty-eight pairs of one- and two-character words were selected as target words in Experiment 1A, while the same amount of two- and three-character words were selected in Experiment 1B. Conversely, a within-subjects design was used in Experiment 2. Sixty sets of one-, two- and three-character words were selected as target words. The results showed that long words were skipped less often and fixated on more often than short words. Total time was shorter for shorter than for longer words but first fixation durations were longer for one- than for two-character words. Most importantly, we did not find reliable evidence to support the view that word length could modulate initial landing position and incoming saccade length in the length-matched region analyses. These findings suggest that word length influences eye movement control during reading Chinese in a way that is slightly different from that in the process of reading English.


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