Repetition causes confusion: Insights to word segmentation during Chinese reading.

Since there are no spaces between words to mark word boundaries in Chinese, it is common see 2 identical neighboring characters natural text. Usually, this occurs when adjacent containing the same character (we will call such a coincidental sequence of repeated characters). In present study, we examined how Chinese readers process characters. 3 experiments, compared 4-character strings including (e.g. , pinyin: xingdong dongji, meaning behavioral motivation) with control condition where none repeat yowang, desire). Experiment 1, were presented for 40 ms and participants asked report as many possible. Participants reported second third less accurately than condition. Experiments 2A 2B, embedded different types strings, compound simple characters, into sentence frames, read these sentences normally. Gaze duration total time on significantly longer These results suggest that increased difficulty processing. Moreover, consistent predictions serial models, which assumes processed serially reading. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).