Reading Finnish compound words: eye fixations are affected by component morphemes.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform
; 24(6): 1612-27, 1998 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-9861713
ABSTRACT
The role of morphemic processing in reading was investigated in 2 experiments in which participants read sentences as their eye movements were monitored. The target words were 2-morpheme Finnish compound words. In Experiment 1, the length of the component morphemes was varied and word length was held constant, and in Experiment 2, the uniqueness of the initial morpheme was varied and the rated familiarity and length of the word were held constant. The length of the initial morpheme influenced the location of the second fixation on the target word and the pattern of fixation durations (although it had a negligible influence on the gaze duration of the word). The frequency of the initial morpheme influenced the duration of the first fixation on the target word, had a substantial effect on the gaze duration, and also influenced the location of the first and second fixations on the target word. Subsidiary analyses indicated that these effects were unlikely to stem from orthographic factors such as bigram frequency.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Lectura
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Percepción Visual
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Vocabulario
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Fijación Ocular
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform
Año:
1998
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Finlandia