心理与行为研究 ›› 2022, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (2): 160-166.DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.02.003

• 基础心理学 • 上一篇    下一篇

汉语老年读者的多词单元加工:来自眼动研究的证据

何立媛1,2,3, 赵星2, 白玉2, 刘妮娜1,2,3   

  1. 1. 教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地天津师范大学心理与行为研究院,天津 300387;
    2. 天津师范大学心理学部,天津 300387;
    3. 学生心理发展与学习天津市高校社会科学实验室,天津 300387
  • 收稿日期:2021-10-14 发布日期:2022-03-20
  • 通讯作者: 何立媛,E-mail:hlypsy@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    天津市哲学社会科学规划项目(TJJX17-009)

Multi-Word Unit Processing for Chinese Older Readers: Evidence from Eye Movements

HE Liyuan1,2,3, ZHAO Xing2, BAI Yu2, LIU Nina1,2,3   

  1. 1. Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    2. Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    3. Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students’ Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin 300387
  • Received:2021-10-14 Published:2022-03-20

摘要: 选取由两个双字词组成的多词组合(单词组合、模糊词组合、双词组合),比较老年人和青年人对多词单元的加工情况。结果发现,相比于其他两类组合,所有被试在单词组合上的注视时间更短,第一遍注视次数更少,成分词上的注视时间更短,跳读率更高,表现出多词单元的加工优势,而且这一加工优势不存在显著的年龄差异。结果表明,汉语老年读者同样将多词单元作为整体进行加工。

关键词: 多词单元, 老年读者, 汉语阅读, 眼动

Abstract: In order to explore the reasons underlying older readers’ inefficient reading, the present study selected three types of two two-character word combinations to investigate how Chinese older adults process multi-word units. Three types of word combinations included single-word combination (which was comprised of frequently co-occurred two words and was typically considered as single four-character word), ambiguous word combination (which expressed a complete idea but was considered as single word by roughly half of readers), and two-word combination (which was not able to convey a whole meaning and was also considered as two words). Younger and older participants were asked to read sentences containing critical word combinations while their eye movements were monitored. The results showed that: 1) older readers made more and longer fixations and less frequently skipped a word compared to young readers, showing typical reading difficulties; 2) both groups of participants spent shorter time on single four-character words and made fewer fixations during first-run reading than those on the ambiguous combinations as well as the two-word combinations. The same pattern also appeared in the first word and second word processing, indicating that multiple word units showed a processing advantage. However, there was no significant age difference in such processing advantage. These findings suggest that older readers process the multi-word units as a whole.

Key words: multi-word unit, older reader, Chinese reading, eye movement

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