Word Identification and Eye Movements in Reading Chinese: Table A1

Doctoral Dissertation of Chih-Hao Tsai >

Tsai, C.-H. (2001). Word identification and eye movements in reading Chinese: A modeling approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Distribution of Word Lengths

Length	Unique words	Percentage of unique words	Word tokens	Percentage of word tokens	Percentage of characters tokens
1	3,863	2.94	2,242,590	46.18	28.50
2	66,785	50.74	2,291,738	47.19	58.26
3	45,381	34.48	258,173	5.32	9.84
4	12,297	9.34	55,922	1.15	2.84
5	1,878	1.43	5,563	0.12	0.36
6	698	0.53	1,411	0.03	0.11
7	385	0.29	481	0.01	0.04
8	174	0.13	200	< 0.01	0.02
9	90	0.07	106	< 0.01	0.01
10	26	0.02	28	< 0.01	< 0.01
11	3	0.01	13	< 0.01	< 0.01
12	11	0.01	12	< 0.01	< 0.01
13	7	0.01	8	< 0.01	< 0.01
14	7	0.01	7	< 0.01	< 0.01
15	1	< 0.01	1	< 0.01	< 0.01

Note. Percentage of character tokens = percentage of character tokens in the corpus occurring in words with the given length.