Initial Character Positional Probability Does Not Influence Word Segmentation in Chinese Reading: Evidence from Parafoveal Processing

LIANG Feifei; XIANG Ying; LONG Mengling

doi:10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.03.005

2022 , Vol. 20 >Issue 3: 318 - 324

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.03.005

Initial Character Positional Probability Does Not Influence Word Segmentation in Chinese Reading: Evidence from Parafoveal Processing

LIANG Feifei ,
XIANG Ying ,
LONG Mengling

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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 date: 2021-12-02

Online published: 2022-05-20

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Abstract

We manipulated the initial character positional probability of two-character word and preview type using boundary paradigm, in order to answer whether Chinese readers are sensitive to the information of word initial character’s positional probability during word segmentation and word identification in natural Chinese reading. Two-character words were selected as target words. The initial character’s positional probability was manipulated as being either high or low, and the final character was kept identical across the two conditions. We recorded adults’ eye movements when they read sentences containing these words. The results showed that preview benefits did not differ in the high-probability and low-probability conditions for skipping probability and the measures of first pass reading, demonstrating that Chinese readiness did not use word initial character positional probability in parafovea for word segmentation and word identification in Chinese reading.

Key words： character positional probability; word segmentation; parafoveal processing; Chinese reading

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LIANG Feifei , XIANG Ying , LONG Mengling . Initial Character Positional Probability Does Not Influence Word Segmentation in Chinese Reading: Evidence from Parafoveal Processing[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(3) : 318 -324 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.03.005

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