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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Word-predictability"”.
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An eye-movement analysis of the word-predictability effect
… was to identify the mechanism under-pinning the word-predictability effect, while a secondary aim was to investigate whether words are processed in serial or parallel. In five experiments, adults’ eye-movements were monitored as they read sentences for comprehension on a computer screen. In …
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Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction
… acoustic quality of a sound, often a vowel or word, to a perceived weaker or shorter state. Previous research suggests that the degree of reduction of a word is influenced by the contextual predictability of words in the context. However, the nature of how the context direction and size governs …
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Use Your Head to Get the Picture: an Investigation of Working Memory and Idiom Processing
… of familiarity, decompositionality and final word predictability were associated with faster reaction times for low working memory participants while familiarity and literal plausibility were associated with faster reaction times for high working memory participants. In Experiment 2, …
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The effects of character predictability on eye-movement control in reading Mandarin Chinese texts
… studies of alphabetic scripts, hypothesize that “word” is the basic unit of processing, but there is no consensus on whether this assumption is also true in Chinese reading. As word boundaries are not visually denoted in Chinese text, “word” is hard to define. Chinese readers do not agree with …