Eye movement control in reading unspaced text: the case of the Japanese script.

Abstract:

:The present study examines the landing-site distributions of the eyes during natural reading of Japanese script: a script that mixes three different writing systems (Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana) and that misses regular spacing between words. The results show a clear preference of the eyes to land at the beginning rather than the center of the word. In addition, it was found that the eyes land on Kanji characters more frequently than on Hiragana or Katakana characters. Further analysis for two- and three-character words indicated that the eye's landing-site distribution differs depending on type of the characters in the word: the eyes prefer to land at the word beginning only when the initial character of the word is a Kanji character. For pure Hiragana words, the proportion of initial fixations did not differ between character positions. Thus, as already indicated by Kambe (National Institute of Japanese Language Report 85 (1986) 29), the visual distinctiveness of the three Japanese scripts plays a role in guiding eye movements in reading Japanese.

journal_name

Vision Res

journal_title

Vision research

authors

Kajii N,Nazir TA,Osaka N

doi

10.1016/s0042-6989(01)00132-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-09-01 00:00:00

pages

2503-10

issue

19

eissn

0042-6989

issn

1878-5646

pii

S0042-6989(01)00132-8

journal_volume

41

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