The effects of spaces on word segmentation in Chinese reading: Evidence from eye movements
The effects of spaces on word segmentation in Chinese reading: Evidence from eye movements
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中文阅读中空格对分词的影响：来自眼动的证据
DOI：
10.1111/1467-9817.12106
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发表时间：
2018-05-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Lu, Qin
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作者：
Liu, Pingping;Lu, Qin
本文通过检查中文这种没有单词分隔符的语言的眼球运动，研究了在两个字符单元之前或之后插入空格对信息处理产生不同影响的机制。本研究中的两个字符单元是保留单词的刺激或破坏单词的刺激（即非单词）。该研究旨在更好地理解词汇处理的认知机制，这可能是在句子上下文中观察到的空格条件的促进或抑制作用的基础。结果表明，在单词后面插入空格有利于词法处理，但在单词前面插入空格则不然。然而，在非单词前后插入空格不会显示这些效果。这些结果表明，词前后空格的影响主要受分词机制的影响，而不是着陆位置效应或其他因素的影响。
This paper studies the mechanisms behind the differential effects of inserting a space either before or after a two-character unit on information processing through the examination of eye movements in Chinese, a language where there is no word delimiters. A two-character unit in this study is either a word-preserving stimulus or a word-disrupting stimulus (i.e., nonword). The study aims for a better understanding of the cognitive mechanisms for lexical processing that may underlie observed facilitory or inhibitory effects of the spacing conditions in sentence context. Results show that inserting a space after a word facilitates lexical processing, but inserting a space before a word does not. Inserting a space before and after a nonword, however, does not show these effects. These results indicate that the effects of spaces before and after words are mainly influenced by word segmentation mechanisms rather than landing position effects or other factors.