There is no relationship between preferred viewing location and word segmentation in Chinese reading

	There is no relationship between preferred viewing location and word segmentation in Chinese reading
	Ma, Guojie1,2 ; Li, Xingshan1 ; Pollatsek, Alexander 3
摘要	In Chinese, as there are no spaces between words to mark word boundaries, readers usually do not target their eyes to the centre of the word as readers of English do. Previous studies showed that the distribution of the initial landing positions on a word (the PVL curve) peaked at the beginning of a word when there was more than one fixation; but peaked at the centre of a word if there was only one fixation on the word. Based on this phenomenon, it was argued that Chinese readers move their eyes to the beginning of a word if they cannot correctly segment words in the parafovea, but move to the centre of a word if they can. In the present study, we implemented a natural sentence reading task in Experiment 1 and a shuffled-character reading task in Experiment 2 to test whether the above PVL phenomenon was in fact caused by word segmentation. In both experiments, we found that the different PVL patterns in multiple- and single-fixation cases occurred not only for a 3-character word region but also for a 3-character nonword region. These results suggest that the different PVL curves in multiple- and single-fixation cases are likely to be due to a statistical artefact instead of parafoveal word segmentation.
关键词	Preferred viewing location Word segmentation Chinese reading Landing position
	2015-03-16
语种	英语
发表期刊	VISUAL COGNITION
ISSN	1350-6285
卷号	23 期号:3 页码:399-414
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000354441800004
引用统计	被引频次：17[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/13393
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Massachusetts, Dept Psychol, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Guojie,Li, Xingshan,Pollatsek, Alexander. There is no relationship between preferred viewing location and word segmentation in Chinese reading[J]. VISUAL COGNITION,2015,23(3):399-414.
APA	Ma, Guojie,Li, Xingshan,&Pollatsek, Alexander.(2015).There is no relationship between preferred viewing location and word segmentation in Chinese reading.VISUAL COGNITION,23(3),399-414.
MLA	Ma, Guojie,et al."There is no relationship between preferred viewing location and word segmentation in Chinese reading".VISUAL COGNITION 23.3(2015):399-414.

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