LEXICAL COMPLEXITY AND FIXATION TIMES IN READING - EFFECTS OF WORD-FREQUENCY, VERB COMPLEXITY, AND LEXICAL AMBIGUITY
LEXICAL COMPLEXITY AND FIXATION TIMES IN READING - EFFECTS OF WORD-FREQUENCY, VERB COMPLEXITY, AND LEXICAL AMBIGUITY
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DOI：
10.3758/bf03197692
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发表时间：
1986-05-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
DUFFY, SA
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作者：
RAYNER, K;DUFFY, SA
两个实验调查了词汇复杂性是否会增加单词的处理时间。受试者阅读包含一个目标单词的句子，同时监测他们的眼球运动。在实验1中，对不常见单词的平均固定时间比对更频繁的单词的平均固定时间长，在不常见目标之后的第一次固定时间也是如此。对使役动词、作动词、否定动词和歧义名词的注视时间并不比对照组长。然而，对歧义名词的进一步分析表明，它们的各种含义的可能性影响了固定时间。实验2对该因素进行了研究。被试花更长的时间去关注两个含义相同的模棱两可的单词，而不是一个含义非常可能的模棱两可的单词。结果表明，动词复杂性不影响词汇访问时间，而词频和两个高度可能意义的存在会影响词汇访问和/或访问后整合。
Two experiments investigated whether lexical complexity increases a word''s processing time. Subjects read sentences, each containing a target word, while their eye movements were monitored. In Experiment 1, mean fixation time on infrequent words was longer than on their more frequent controls, as was the first fixation after the infrequent target. Fixation times on causative, factive, and negative verbs and ambiguous nouns were no longer than on their controls. Further analyses on the ambiguous nouns, however, suggested that the likelihood of their various meanings affected fixation time. This factor was investigated in Experiment 2. Subjects spent a longer time fixating ambiguous words with two equally likely meanings than fixating ambiguous words with one highly likely meaning. The results suggest that verb complexity does not affect lexical access time, and that word frequency and the presence of two highly likely meanings may affect lexical access and/or postaccess integration.