Readers 读者
Effects of text segmentation on silent reading of Chinese regulated poems: Evidence
文本切分对汉语格律诗阅读的影响
Chen Qingrong 陈庆荣; Gu Wentao 顾文涛; Christoph Scheepers
Abstract 摘要
Interword spaces have been reported to play an important role in silent reading of alphabetic languages. However, it has not yet been clear whether text spacing/segmentation facilitates the cognitive process in silent reading of Chinese, a logographic language, especially in reading Chinese regulated poems which have predefined rhythmic structures. An eye-tracking experiment was conducted to monitor eye movements of native participants in reading Chinese regulated poems in four segmenting conditions: normal text, character segmentation, rhythmic segmentation, and syntactic segmentation. By comparing a set of measures of eye movements, both global and local analyses showed that syntactic segmentation boosted reading efficiency, while rhythmic segmentation did not. The findings demonstrate that not rhythmic but syntactic structure plays major roles in the cognitive process in reading Chinese regulated poems, suggesting an intrinsic difference in the information structure between spoken and written languages.
Keywords 关键词
Text segmentation 文本切分 Reading 阅读 Chinese regulated poem 汉语格律诗 Rhythmic structure 节律结构 Syntactic structure 句法结构 Eye movement 眼球运动
Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol.44, no.2 (June 2016): 265-286
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