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Dawson, Nicola; Hsiao, Yaling; Tan, Alvin Wei Ming; Banerji, Nilanjana; Nation, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: Morphological regularities are an important feature of the English writing system, and exposure to written morphology may be key in the development of skilled word recognition. Our aim was to investigate children's experiences of written morphology by analyzing a large-scale corpus of children's reading materials spanning a target age…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Morphology (Languages), Difficulty Level, Word Recognition
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Hermena, Ehab W.; Liversedge, Simon P.; Drieghe, Denis – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
The authors conducted 2 eye movement experiments in which they used the typographical and linguistic properties of Arabic to disentangle the influences of words' number of letters and spatial extent on measures of fixation duration and saccade targeting (Experiment 1), and to investigate the influence of initial bigram characteristics on saccade…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Semitic Languages, Reading Processes, Layout (Publications)
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Three experiments used the differential frequency effect as a diagnostic tool to investigate the mental representation of disyllabic compound words in Mandarin Chinese. The results indicated that, when both word frequency and morpheme frequency were held constant, high-frequency first syllables slowed responses to real words. (41 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Countries, Language Processing