Estimating the Effect of Word Predictability on Eye Movements in Chinese Reading Using Latent Semantic Analysis and Transitional Probability

Wang, Hsueh‐Cheng; Pomplun, Marc; Chen, Minglei; Ko, Hwa Wei; Rayner, Keith

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“…The second, alternative account suggests that the plausibility effect may reflect the likelihood of co-occurrence of the pre-target word and the preview word. In other words, a plausible preview word is more likely to co-occur with the pre-target word than an implausible preview word (also see Wang, Pomplun, Ko, Chen, & Rayner, 2010) for the effect of transitional probability in reading Chinese). These two explanations for the plausibility preview benefit effect cannot be ruled out by the current study and further experiments are needed to test the feasibility of each alternative.…”

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Encoding the target or the plausible preview word? The nature of the plausibility preview benefit in reading Chinese

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Visual Cognition

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Previous studies have shown that a plausible preview word can facilitate the processing of a target word as compared to an implausible preview word (a plausibility preview benefit effect) when reading Chinese (Yang, Wang, Tong, & Rayner, 2012; Yang, 2013). Regarding the nature of this effect, it is possible that readers processed the meaning of the plausible preview word and did not actually encode the target word (given that the parafoveal preview word lies close to the fovea). The current experiment examined this possibility with three conditions wherein readers received a preview of a target word that was either (1) identical to the target word (identical preview), (2) a plausible continuation of the pre-target text, but the post-target text in the sentence was incompatible with it (initially plausible preview), or (3) not a plausible continuation of the pre-target text, nor compatible with the post-target text (implausible preview). Gaze durations on target words were longer in the initially plausible condition than the identical condition. Overall, the results showed a typical preview benefit, but also implied that readers did not encode the initially plausible preview. Also, a plausibility preview benefit was replicated: gaze durations were longer with implausible previews than the initially plausible ones. Furthermore, late eye movement measures did not reveal differences between the initially plausible and the implausible preview conditions, which argues against the possibility of misreading the plausible preview word as the target word. In sum, these results suggest that a plausible preview word provides benefit in processing the target word as compared to an implausible preview word, and this benefit is only present in early but not late eye movement measures.

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Encoding the target or the plausible preview word? The nature of the plausibility preview benefit in reading Chinese

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“…Additionally, it is possible that when progressing incrementally through a sentence, readers assume the presence of a word boundary when a character is encountered that is highly unlikely to be a continuation of the immediately preceding word unit given the immediately preceding characters. 7 Such probabilities may be similar to the effect in which certain words are more likely than others to follow a given word in a sentence -transitional probabilities, related to word predictability, and known to impact on reading times (e.g., Frisson, Rayner & Pickering, 2005;McDonald & Shillcock, 2003a,2003bWang, Pomplun, Chen, Ko, & Rayner, 2010). Knowledge of any statistical properties of printed language will develop as an individual gains experience, progressing from beginning to skilled reader, and so the use of such cues for word segmentation in unspaced Chinese text may well be more efficient in adult readers than in children.…”

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Inserting spaces into Chinese text helps readers to learn new words: An eye movement study

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“…Following the principle of creating semantic spaces (Quesada, 2007), our previous studies (Wang, Pomplun, Ko, Chen, & Rayner, 2010; Chen, Wang, & Ko, 2009) built an LSA semantic space of Chinese (abbreviated as SP-C) from ASBC, which contains approximately 5 million words (or 7.6 million characters). Texts in ASBC were collected from different topics.…”

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Predicting raters’ transparency judgments of English and Chinese morphological constituents using latent semantic analysis

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The morphological constituents of English compounds (e.g., “butter” and “fly” for “butterfly”) and two-character Chinese compounds may differ in meaning from the whole word. Subjective differences and ambiguity of transparency make the judgments difficult, and a computational alternative based on a general model may be a way to average across subjective differences. The current study proposes two approaches based on Latent Semantic Analysis (Landauer & Dumais, 1997): Model 1 compares the semantic similarity between a compound word and each of its constituents, and Model 2 derives the dominant meaning of a constituent based on a clustering analysis of morphological family members (e.g., “butterfingers” or “buttermilk” for “butter”). The proposed models successfully predicted participants’ transparency ratings, and we recommend that experimenters use Model 1 for English compounds and Model 2 for Chinese compounds, due to raters’ morphological processing in different writing systems. The dominance of lexical meaning, semantic transparency, and the average similarity between all pairs within a morphological family are provided, and practical applications for future studies are discussed.

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Estimating the Effect of Word Predictability on Eye Movements in Chinese Reading Using Latent Semantic Analysis and Transitional Probability

Cited by 29 publications

References 30 publications

Encoding the target or the plausible preview word? The nature of the plausibility preview benefit in reading Chinese

Encoding the target or the plausible preview word? The nature of the plausibility preview benefit in reading Chinese

Inserting spaces into Chinese text helps readers to learn new words: An eye movement study

Predicting raters’ transparency judgments of English and Chinese morphological constituents using latent semantic analysis

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