Drieghe Denis, Pollatsek Alexander, Staub Adrian, Rayner Keith
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2008 Nov;34(6):1552-60. doi: 10.1037/a0013017.
The distribution of landing positions and durations of first fixations in a region containing a noun preceded by either an article (e.g., the soldiers) or a high-frequency 3-letter word (e.g., all soldiers) were compared. Although there were fewer first fixations on the blank space between the high-frequency 3-letter word and the noun than on the surrounding letters (and the fixations on the blank space were shorter), this pattern did not occur when the noun was preceded by an article. R. Radach (1996) inferred from a similar experiment that did not manipulate the type of short word that 2 words could be processed as a perceptual unit during reading when the first word is a short word. As this different pattern of fixations is restricted to article-noun pairs, it indicates that word grouping does not occur purely on the basis of word length during reading; moreover, as the authors demonstrate, one can explain the observed patterns in both conditions more parsimoniously without adopting a word-grouping mechanism in eye movement control during reading.
比较了在包含由冠词（如“the soldiers”）或高频三字母单词（如“all soldiers”）前置的名词的区域中首次注视的着陆位置和持续时间。尽管高频三字母单词与名词之间空白处的首次注视比周围字母上的首次注视更少（且在空白处的注视持续时间更短），但当名词由冠词前置时，这种模式并未出现。R. 拉达赫（1996）从一个未操纵短单词类型的类似实验中推断出，当第一个单词是短单词时，在阅读过程中两个单词可以作为一个感知单元进行处理。由于这种不同的注视模式仅限于冠词 - 名词对，这表明在阅读过程中单词分组并非纯粹基于单词长度发生；此外，正如作者所证明的，在不采用阅读过程中眼动控制的单词分组机制的情况下，可以更简洁地解释两种情况下观察到的模式。
