School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2019 Apr;26(2):616-621. doi: 10.3758/s13423-019-01590-0.
Fitzsimmons and Drieghe (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 736-741, 2011) showed that a monosyllabic word was skipped more often than a disyllabic word during reading. This finding was interpreted as evidence that syllabic information was extracted from the parafovea early enough to influence word skipping. In the present, large-scale replication of this study, in which we additionally measured the reading, vocabulary, and spelling abilities of the participants, the effect of number of syllables on word skipping was not significant. Moreover, a Bayesian analysis indicated strong evidence for the absence of the effect. The individual differences analyses replicate previous observations showing that spelling ability uniquely predicts word skipping (but not fixation times) because better spellers skip more often. The results indicate that high-quality lexical representations allow the system to reach an advanced stage in the word-recognition process of the parafoveal word early enough to influence the decision of whether or not to skip the word, but this decision is not influenced by number of syllables.
菲茨西蒙斯和德里格（Psychonomic Bulletin & Review，18，736-741，2011）表明，在阅读过程中，单音节词比双音节词更容易被跳过。这一发现被解释为音节信息从视副区中被提取出来，足以影响单词跳过的证据。在目前这项大规模的重复研究中，我们还测量了参与者的阅读、词汇和拼写能力，音节数量对单词跳过的影响并不显著。此外，贝叶斯分析表明，该效应不存在的证据非常有力。个体差异分析复制了之前的观察结果，表明拼写能力可以唯一地预测单词跳过（而不是固定时间），因为拼写能力更好的人跳过的频率更高。结果表明，高质量的词汇表征允许系统在视副区单词的单词识别过程中尽早进入高级阶段，从而影响是否跳过单词的决策，但该决策不受音节数量的影响。
