词间空格促进从右向左呈现汉语文本的阅读  

Interword Spaces Facilitate Chinese Reading:Evidence from Reading Right to Left

作　　者：王永胜[1,2,3] 韩洋 罗雨娇[2] 何立媛 李馨[1,2,3] 白学军 Wang Yongsheng;Han Yang;Luo Yujiao;He Liyuan;Li Xin;Bai Xuejun(Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education,Academy of Psychology and Behavior,Tianjin Normal University,Tianjin,300387;Faculty of Psychology,Tianjin Normal University,Tianjin,300387;Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students’Mental Development and Learning,Tianjin,300387)

机构地区：[1]教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地天津师范大学心理与行为研究院,天津300387 [2]天津师范大学心理学部,天津300387 [3]学生心理发展与学习天津市高校社会科学实验室,天津300387

出　　处：《心理科学》2022年第4期826-832,共7页Journal of Psychological Science

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究青年基金项目(18YJC190023)的资助。

摘　　要：为探讨在缺少相关阅读经验的阅读情境下,词切分线索是否促进读者的阅读与词汇识别,本研究操纵了阅读方向、词切分线索与目标词的词频,采用眼动仪记录读者的阅读过程。结果发现:阅读方向与词切分线索的交互作用显著,词切分显著地促进了从右向左呈现文本的阅读,但并不影响从左向右呈现文本的阅读;词切分条件下目标词的注视时间显著地短于无词切分条件。表明词切分线索促进了缺少阅读经验时的阅读,支持词切分线索的促进与文本不熟悉干扰之间权衡作用的假设。Inter-word spaces play very important roles in spaced alphabetic language for delimiting word boundaries.When spaces between words are removed,reader’s reading efficiency will be reduced significantly,and word identification will also be disrupted.In unspaced languages,such as Thai,inserting spaces between words was proved to improve reading.Although Chinese script is normally printed as continuous strings of characters,word identification is one of the critical processes in reading.Number of studies explored whether inserting spaces between words could improve the reading efficiency of Chinese readers but found no evidence supporting any facilitation or disruption that inter-word spaces had on reading.Researchers proposed that the null effect was due to the trade-off between the facilitation of inter-word spaces and the interference of unfamiliar inter-word spaces text.Studies were conducted using Chinese second language beginners as the participants,who were much less experienced in reading Chinese texts without spaces between words,to investigate the effect of inserting word spaces on their reading.It was found that participants benefited from introducing inter-word spaces.However,as Chinese second language beginners still have experiences in reading Chinese texts although they were less skilled Chinese readers,this may confuse the results.In the current study,we manipulated the presenting direction of Chinese text,including normal text presented from left to right as well as from right to left,where the readers had no experience in reading such a text.We also manipulated the appearance of spaces between words(presented vs.absent) and frequency of target words(high vs.low).48 undergraduate participants were asked to read the sentences and their eye movements were recorded using the Eye Link 1000 Plus Eye tracker.Results of sentence level analysis showed that the efficiency of reading the text written from right to left was significantly lower than that of reading the normal presented text written from left t

关 键 词：词切分 阅读经验 权衡作用 汉语阅读 

分 类 号：B842[哲学宗教—基础心理学]