Word Identification and Eye Movements in Reading Chinese: A
Modeling Approach
Doctoral dissertation © Copyright by Chih-Hao Tsai, 2001.
Dissertation Abstracts International, 62, 3825.
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Chih-Hao Tsai, Ph.D.
College of Education,
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2001
*The author is now at Kaohsiung Medical
University.
Committee:
George
McConkie (Advisor),
Richard Anderson, Kevin
Miller, Jerome
Packard
Abstract | Dedication | Acknowledgements
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Table of
Contents
Chapter
-
Introduction
- Word Identification
- The Word Identification Problem in Reading Chinese
- Goal of the Present Study
-
Words in Chinese
- Differential Evolution of Language and Script
- The Concept of Word in Chinese
- Defining the Word
-
Mental Lexicon and Lexical
Access
- Phonology and Visual Word Identification
- Morphology, Semantics, and the Mental Lexicon
- Lexical Access of Complex Words
-
Word Identification During Online
Reading
- Word Spacing and Reading
- Perceptual Units in Reading
- Disambiguation Heuristics
-
Some Problems in Chinese Reading
Research
- Lack of Interdisciplinary Perspective
- Limitation of Experimentation
- Lack of Analytical Works
-
Word Identification in Reading
Chinese: A New Analysis
- Spoken Word Identification
- Speech Perception Versus Reading
- Characteristics of Word Boundary Ambiguity
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Research Framework
- Corpus-based Research
- Why ASBC?
- Structure of Research
- General Method
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Part 1: Pre-model Analysis
- Method
- Results and Discussion
- Summary
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Part 2: Modeling Word Identification
and Eye Movements
- The Model
- Method
- Results and Discussion
- Summary
-
General Discussion
- Summary of Important Findings
- Implications
- Limitations
- Coda
References
Appendix
- Tables
- Figures
- Examples of Errors in
Disambiguating Disjunctive Ambiguity