Repetition Causes Confusion: Insights to Word Segmentation during Chinese Reading

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Jingwen; Angele, Bernhard; Ma, Guojie; Li, Xingshan
Titel	Repetition Causes Confusion: Insights to Word Segmentation during Chinese Reading
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47 (2021) 1, S.147-156 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Li, Xingshan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000817
Schlagwörter	Reading Processes; Orthographic Symbols; Chinese; Comparative Analysis; Nonverbal Communication; Prediction; Sentences; Eye Movements; Phonemes; Native Language; Accuracy; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseprozess; China; Chinesen; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Vorhersage; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Fonem; Ausland
Abstract	Since there are no spaces between words to mark word boundaries in Chinese, it is common to see 2 identical neighboring characters in natural text. Usually, this occurs when there are 2 adjacent words containing the same character (we will call such a coincidental sequence of 2 identical characters "repeated characters"). In the present study, we examined how Chinese readers process words when there are repeated characters. In 3 experiments, we compared how Chinese readers process 4-character strings including 2 repeated characters (e.g. [Chinese characters omitted], pinyin: xíngdòng dòngji, meaning "behavioral motivation") with a control condition where none of the characters repeat (e.g. [Chinese characters omitted], pinyin: xíngdòng yùwàng, meaning "behavioral desire"). In Experiment 1, the 4-character strings were presented for 40 ms and participants were asked to report as many characters as possible. Participants reported the second and third characters less accurately in the repeated condition than the control condition. In Experiments 2A and 2B, we embedded 2 different types of 4-character strings, compound Chinese characters and simple Chinese characters, into the same sentence frames, and asked participants to read these sentences normally. Gaze duration and total time on the second word were significantly longer in the repeated condition. These results suggest that the repeated characters increased the difficulty of word processing. Moreover, the results are consistent with the predictions of serial models, which assumes that words are processed serially in reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01