Eye movements and the identification of spatially ambiguous words during Chinese sentence reading

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作者：
Albrecht W. Inhoff
Caili Wu
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[1] State University of New York,Department of Psychology
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Memory & Cognition | 2005年 / 33卷
关键词：
Chinese Character; Character Sequence; Word Boundary; Landing Position; Ambiguous Sentence;
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Readers of Chinese must generally determine word units in the absence of visually distinct interword spaces. In the present study, we examined how a sequence of Chinese characters is parsed into words under these conditions. Eye movements were monitored while participants read sentences with a critical four-character (C1234) sequence. Three partially overlapping character groupings formed legal words in the ambiguous condition (C12, C23, and C34), two of which corresponded to contextconsistent words (C12 and C34). Two nonoverlapping groupings corresponded to legal words in the control conditions (C12 and C34). In two experiments, readers spent more time viewing the critical character sequence and its two center characters (C23) in the ambiguous condition. These results argue against the strictly serial assignment of characters to words during the reading of Chinese text.
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