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The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification
Studies are reviewed that demonstrate how the identification of compound words during reading is constrained by the foveal area of the eye. When compound words are short, their letters can be identified during a single fixation, leading to the whole-word route dominating word recognition from early...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701444 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00188 |
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description | Studies are reviewed that demonstrate how the identification of compound words during reading is constrained by the foveal area of the eye. When compound words are short, their letters can be identified during a single fixation, leading to the whole-word route dominating word recognition from early on. Hence, marking morpheme boundaries visually by means of hyphens slows down the processing of short words by encouraging morphological decomposition when holistic processing is a feasible option. In contrast, the decomposition route dominates the early stages of identifying long compound words. Thus, visual marking of morpheme boundaries facilitates processing of long compound words, unless the initial fixation made on the word lands very close to the morpheme boundary. The reviewed pattern of results is explained by the visual acuity principle (Bertram and Hyönä, 2003) and the dual-route framework of morphological processing. |
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spelling | pubmed-33716942012-06-14 The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification Hyönä, Jukka Front Psychol Psychology Studies are reviewed that demonstrate how the identification of compound words during reading is constrained by the foveal area of the eye. When compound words are short, their letters can be identified during a single fixation, leading to the whole-word route dominating word recognition from early on. Hence, marking morpheme boundaries visually by means of hyphens slows down the processing of short words by encouraging morphological decomposition when holistic processing is a feasible option. In contrast, the decomposition route dominates the early stages of identifying long compound words. Thus, visual marking of morpheme boundaries facilitates processing of long compound words, unless the initial fixation made on the word lands very close to the morpheme boundary. The reviewed pattern of results is explained by the visual acuity principle (Bertram and Hyönä, 2003) and the dual-route framework of morphological processing. Frontiers Research Foundation 2012-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3371694/ /pubmed/22701444 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00188 Text en Copyright © 2012 Hyönä. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Hyönä, Jukka The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification |
title | The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification |
title_full | The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification |
title_fullStr | The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification |
title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification |
title_short | The Role of Visual Acuity and Segmentation Cues in Compound Word Identification |
title_sort | role of visual acuity and segmentation cues in compound word identification |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701444 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00188 |
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