The role of interword spacing in reading Japanese: An eye movement study

被引：74
作者：
Sainio, Miia
Hyona, Jukka
Bingushi, Kazuo
Bertram, Raymond
机构：
[1] Univ Turku, Dept Psychol, Turku 20014, Finland
[2] Chukyo Univ, Dept Psychol, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
来源：
VISION RESEARCH | 2007年 / 47卷 / 20期
基金：
芬兰科学院;
关键词：
reading; space; fixation; saccade; Japanese;
D O I：
10.1016/j.visres.2007.05.017
中图分类号：
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号：
071006 ;
摘要：
The present study investigated the role of interword spacing in a naturally unspaced language, Japanese. Eye movements were registered of native Japanese readers reading pure Hiragana (syllabic) and mixed Kanji-Hiragana (ideographic and syllabic) text in spaced and unspaced conditions. Interword spacing facilitated both word identification and eye guidance when reading syllabic script, but not when the script contained ideographic characters. We conclude that in reading Hiragana interword spacing serves as an effective segmentation cue. In contrast, spacing information in mixed Kanji-Hiragana text is redundant, since the visually salient Kanji characters serve as effective segmentation cues by themselves. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：2575 / 2584
页数：10
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