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The use of probabilistic lexicality cues for word segmentation in Chinese reading

The use of probabilistic lexicality cues for word segmentation in Chinese reading
The use of probabilistic lexicality cues for word segmentation in Chinese reading
In an eye-tracking experiment we examined whether Chinese readers were sensitive to information concerning how often a Chinese character appears as a single-character word versus the first character in a two-character word, and whether readers use this information to segment words and adjust the amount of parafoveal processing of subsequent characters during reading. Participants read sentences containing a two-character target word with its first character more or less likely to be a single-character word. The boundary paradigm was used. The boundary appeared between the first character and the second character of the target word, and we manipulated whether readers saw an identity or a pseudocharacter preview of the second character of the target. Linear mixed-effects models revealed reduced preview benefit from the second character when the first character was more likely to be a single-character word. This suggests that Chinese readers use probabilistic combinatorial information about the likelihood of a Chinese character being single-character word or a two-character word online to modulate the extent of parafoveal processing.
word segmentation, preview benefit, eye movements, chinese reading
1747-0218
548-560
Zang, Chuanli
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Wang, Yongsheng
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Bai, Xuejun
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Yan, Guoli
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Drieghe, Denis
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Yan, Guoli
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Zang, Chuanli, Wang, Yongsheng, Bai, Xuejun, Yan, Guoli, Drieghe, Denis and Liversedge, Simon P. (2016) The use of probabilistic lexicality cues for word segmentation in Chinese reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69 (3), 548-560. (doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1061030). (PMID:26145449)

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In an eye-tracking experiment we examined whether Chinese readers were sensitive to information concerning how often a Chinese character appears as a single-character word versus the first character in a two-character word, and whether readers use this information to segment words and adjust the amount of parafoveal processing of subsequent characters during reading. Participants read sentences containing a two-character target word with its first character more or less likely to be a single-character word. The boundary paradigm was used. The boundary appeared between the first character and the second character of the target word, and we manipulated whether readers saw an identity or a pseudocharacter preview of the second character of the target. Linear mixed-effects models revealed reduced preview benefit from the second character when the first character was more likely to be a single-character word. This suggests that Chinese readers use probabilistic combinatorial information about the likelihood of a Chinese character being single-character word or a two-character word online to modulate the extent of parafoveal processing.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 May 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 July 2015
Published date: 2016
Keywords: word segmentation, preview benefit, eye movements, chinese reading
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 378962
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378962
ISSN: 1747-0218
PURE UUID: d7e2bcdd-99e5-4c61-adfe-59d659f65a77
ORCID for Denis Drieghe: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9630-8410

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Date deposited: 15 Jul 2015 13:31
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:34

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Author: Chuanli Zang
Author: Yongsheng Wang
Author: Xuejun Bai
Author: Guoli Yan
Author: Denis Drieghe ORCID iD
Author: Simon P. Liversedge

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