词间空格对维吾尔族大学生词汇加工的影响

Word Spacing’s Effect on Uyghur College Students’Lexical Processing

采用眼动追踪技术,考察高熟练和低熟练水平维吾尔族大学生在有无空格的国家通用语言文字句子阅读任务中的眼动特征,以探讨词间空格对词汇加工的影响。结果发现,不同熟练水平维吾尔族大学生在有空格的句子阅读中首次注视时间、凝视时间、注视次数显著少于无空格条件,即有空格条件下的阅读优于无空格。此外,空格对低熟练大学生词汇通达早期阶段的促进作用更大。总之,空格促进维吾尔族大学生的词汇加工。表明维吾尔族大学生的词汇加工在一定程度上依赖于词素分解表征,并随着语言熟练程度的提高,词素分解表征的依赖性逐渐减弱,而整词加工能力逐渐提升。

The present study employed eye-tracking technology to examine the eye movement characteristics of highly and lowly proficient Uyghur college students in reading comprehension tasks of Chinese Mandarin sentences with and without word spacing,in order to explore the influence of word spacing on their lexical processing.Results showed that in sentence reading with word spacing,first fixation duration and gaze duration were significantly shorter,and fixation counts were significantly less than those in the no word spacing condition,indicating the facilitation of word spacing to reading.In addition,word spacing had a greater facilitative effect on the early stage of vocabulary access for low-proficiency college students.Overall,word spacing promoted the lexical processing of Uyghur college students,suggesting that their lexical processing depends on morpheme access to a certain extent.Moreover,as language proficiency improving,the dependence on morpheme access gradually decreases whereas whole-word processing ability gradually increases.