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

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumei Jiao ◽  
Peng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Word Boundaries ◽  
Thai Students ◽  
Reading Chinese ◽  
Chinese Texts

Processing of compound-word characters in reading Chinese: An eye-movement-contingent display change study

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Cui ◽  
Guoli Yan ◽  
Xuejun Bai ◽  
Jukka Hyönä ◽  
Suiping Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Compound Word ◽  
Display Change ◽  
Reading Chinese

Effects of typographic variables on eye-movement measures in reading Chinese from a screen

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
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Reading Chinese

The modulation of eye movement control by word length in reading Chinese

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 1620-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guojie Ma ◽  
Ziang Li ◽  
Fengfeng Xu ◽  
Xingshan Li
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Chinese Text ◽  
Word Length ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
Eye Movement Control ◽  
Saccade Length ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Reading Chinese ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Target Words

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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