Inserting spaces before and after words affects word processing differently in Chinese: Evidence from eye movements.
Unlike in English, there are no spaces between printed words in Chinese. In this study, we explored how inserting a space before or after a word affects the processing of that word in Chinese reading. Native Chinese readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences with different presenta...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 57 - 69 |
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