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Pandey, Aparna; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Perceptual span, the effective visual field in reading covered in a single fixation, varies across orthographies. The perceptual span for reading English covers 3-4-character spaces to the left of fixation and around 14-15-character spaces to the right of the fixation while for Chinese it is one character space to the left and 3-character spaces…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, Visual Perception, Reading Skills, Eye Movements
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Yuyan Xue; John Williams – Language Learning, 2024
Can brief training on novel grammatical morphemes influence visual processing of nonlinguistic stimuli? If so, how deep is this effect? Here, an experimental group learned two novel morphemes highlighting the familiar concept of transitivity in sentences; a control group was exposed to the same input but with the novel morphemes used…
Descriptors: Shift Studies, Attention, Visual Perception, Grammar
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Besken, Miri; Mulligan, Neil W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Ancient as well as modern writers have promoted the idea that bizarre images enhance memory. Research has documented bizarreness effects, with one standard technique finding that sentences describing unusual, implausible, or bizarre scenarios are better remembered than sentences describing plausible, every day, or common scenarios. Not…
Descriptors: Memory, Visual Stimuli, Visualization, Cognitive Processes
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Reinwein, Joachim; Tassé, Serge – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Are oral sentences accompanied by pictures easier to understand than written sentences accompanied by the same pictures? This question--intensely discussed for more than two decades in educational, psychological, and psycholinguistic research in terms of "modality effect in multimedia learning," "split-attention effect," or…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Task Analysis, Sentences, Illustrations
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Sekicki, Mirjana; Staudte, Maria – Cognitive Science, 2018
Referential gaze has been shown to benefit language processing in situated communication in terms of shifting visual attention and leading to shorter reaction times on subsequent tasks. The present study simultaneously assessed both visual attention and, importantly, the immediate cognitive load induced at different stages of sentence processing.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Language Processing
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Stadtmiller, Elizabeth; Lindner, Katrin; Süss, Assunta; Gagarina, Natalia – Journal of Child Language, 2022
In error analyses using sentence repetition data, most authors focus on word types of omissions. The current study considers serial order in omission patterns independent of functional categories. Data was collected from Russian and German sentence repetition tasks performed by 53 five-year-old bilingual children. Number and positions of word…
Descriptors: Russian, German, Language Acquisition, Error Analysis (Language)
Ryo Maie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Skill acquisition theorists conceptualize second language (L2) learning as the acquisition of a set of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills. The dominant view in skill acquisition theory is to regard L2 skill acquisition as a three-stage process "from initial representation of knowledge through initial changes in behavior to eventual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Learning Processes
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Pan, Jinger; Yan, Ming; Laubrock, Jochen – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
The present study explores the perceptual span, that is, the physical extent of the area from which useful visual information is obtained during a single fixation, during oral reading of Chinese sentences. Characters outside a window of legible text were replaced by visually similar characters. Results show that the influence of window size on the…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Oral Reading, Chinese, Sentences
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Worster, Elizabeth; Pimperton, Hannah; Ralph-Lewis, Amelia; Monroy, Laura; Hulme, Charles; MacSweeney, Mairéad – Language Learning, 2018
For children who are born deaf, lipreading (speechreading) is an important source of access to spoken language. We used eye tracking to investigate the strategies used by deaf (n = 33) and hearing 5-8-year-olds (n = 59) during a sentence speechreading task. The proportion of time spent looking at the mouth during speech correlated positively with…
Descriptors: Deafness, Eye Movements, Lipreading, Hearing Impairments
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Plym, Jade; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Smolander, Sini; Arkkila, Eva; Laasonen, Marja – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is defined by persistent difficulties with language, but a growing body of evidence suggests that it is also associated with domain-general and nonverbal information-processing deficits. However, the interconnections between cognitive functions, both nonverbal and language related, are still unclear.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Cognitive Ability, Preschool Children
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Liu, Yanping; Reichle, Erik D.; Li, Xingshan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Participants' eye movements were measured while reading Chinese sentences in which target-word frequency and the availability of parafoveal processing were manipulated using a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm. The results of this study indicate that preview availability and its interaction with word frequency modulated the length of the saccades…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Eye Movements, Chinese, Reading
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Liu, Pingping; Li, Xingshan; Han, Buxin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Eye movements of Chinese readers were recorded for sentences in which high- and low-frequency target words were presented normally or with reduced stimulus quality in two experiments. We found stimulus quality and word frequency produced strong additive effects on fixation durations for target words. The results demonstrate that stimulus quality…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading, Eye Movements, Stimuli
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Dorman, Michael F.; Liss, Julie; Wang, Shuai; Berisha, Visar; Ludwig, Cimarron; Natale, Sarah Cook – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Five experiments probed auditory-visual (AV) understanding of sentences by users of cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Sentence material was presented in auditory (A), visual (V), and AV test conditions to listeners with normal hearing and CI users. Results: (a) Most CI users report that most of the time, they have access to both A and V…
Descriptors: Sentences, Assistive Technology, Syllables, Phonemes
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Whitford, Veronica; Titone, Debra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Eye movement measures demonstrate differences in first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) paragraph-level reading as a function of individual differences in current L2 exposure among bilinguals (Whitford & Titone, 2012). Specifically, as current L2 exposure increases, the ease of L2 word processing increases, but the ease of L1 word…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading, Sentences, Second Languages
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Yan, Ming; Zhou, Wei; Shu, Hua; Kliegl, Reinhold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The present study explored the perceptual span (i.e., the physical extent of an area from which useful visual information is extracted during a single fixation) during the reading of Chinese sentences in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, we tested whether the rightward span can go beyond 3 characters when visually similar masks were used. Results…
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Chinese, Sentences, Reading Processes
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