LEXICAL ACCESS DURING EYE FIXATIONS IN READING - EFFECTS OF WORD-INITIAL LETTER SEQUENCE
LEXICAL ACCESS DURING EYE FIXATIONS IN READING - EFFECTS OF WORD-INITIAL LETTER SEQUENCE
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-1523.11.3.272
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
INHOFF, AW
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作者:
LIMA, SD;INHOFF, AW
Tested the constraint hypothesis, which states that lexical access in reading is initiated on the basis of word-initial letter information obtainable in the parafoveal region, in 2 experiments. Ss were 36 college students with normal vision. Eye movements were monitored while Ss read sentences containing target words whose initial trigram (Exp I) or bigram (Exp II) imposed either a high or a low degree of constraint in the lexicon. In contradiction to the hypothesis, high-constraint words (eg, dwarf) received longer fixations than did low-constraint words (eg, clown), despite the fact that high-constraint words have an initial letter sequence shared by few other words in the lexicon. A comparison of fixation times in viewing conditions with and without parafoveal letter information showed that the amount of decrease in target fixation time due to prior parafoveal availability was the same for high-and low-constraint targets. It is concluded that increased familiarity of word-initial letter sequence is beneficial to lexical access and that familiarity affects the efficiency of foveal but not parafoveal processing. A list of the sentences used in the 2 experiments is appended.(33 ref)(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)