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Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading
Interword spaces exist in the texts of many languages that use alphabetic writing systems. In most cases, interword spaces, as a kind of word boundary information, play an important role in the reading process of readers. Tibetan also uses alphabetic writing, its text has no spaces between words as...
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author | Wang, Danhui Zeng, Man Zhao, Han Gao, Lei Li, Shan Niu, Zibei Bai, Xuejun Gao, Xiaolei |
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description | Interword spaces exist in the texts of many languages that use alphabetic writing systems. In most cases, interword spaces, as a kind of word boundary information, play an important role in the reading process of readers. Tibetan also uses alphabetic writing, its text has no spaces between words as word boundary markers. Instead, there are intersyllable tshegs (“ [Image: see text] ”), which are superscript dots. Interword spaces play an important role in reading as word boundary information. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the role of tshegs and what effect replacing tshegs with spaces will have on Tibetan reading. To answer these questions, Experiment 1 was conducted in which 72 Tibetan undergraduates read three-syllable-boundary conditions (normal, spaced, and untsheged). However, in Experiment 1, because we performed the experimental operations of deleting tshegs and replacing tshegs, the spatial information distribution of Tibetan sentences under different operating conditions was different, which may have a certain potential impact on the experimental results. To rule out the underlying confounding factor, in Experiment 2, 58 undergraduates read sentences for both untsheged and alternating-color conditions. Overall, the global and local analyses revealed that tshegs, spaces, and alternating-color markers as syllable boundaries can help readers segment syllables in Tibetan reading. In Tibetan reading, both spaces and tshegs are effective visual syllable segmentation cues, and spaces are more effective visual syllable segmentation cues than tshegs. |
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spelling | pubmed-98229702023-01-08 Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading Wang, Danhui Zeng, Man Zhao, Han Gao, Lei Li, Shan Niu, Zibei Bai, Xuejun Gao, Xiaolei Sci Rep Article Interword spaces exist in the texts of many languages that use alphabetic writing systems. In most cases, interword spaces, as a kind of word boundary information, play an important role in the reading process of readers. Tibetan also uses alphabetic writing, its text has no spaces between words as word boundary markers. Instead, there are intersyllable tshegs (“ [Image: see text] ”), which are superscript dots. Interword spaces play an important role in reading as word boundary information. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the role of tshegs and what effect replacing tshegs with spaces will have on Tibetan reading. To answer these questions, Experiment 1 was conducted in which 72 Tibetan undergraduates read three-syllable-boundary conditions (normal, spaced, and untsheged). However, in Experiment 1, because we performed the experimental operations of deleting tshegs and replacing tshegs, the spatial information distribution of Tibetan sentences under different operating conditions was different, which may have a certain potential impact on the experimental results. To rule out the underlying confounding factor, in Experiment 2, 58 undergraduates read sentences for both untsheged and alternating-color conditions. Overall, the global and local analyses revealed that tshegs, spaces, and alternating-color markers as syllable boundaries can help readers segment syllables in Tibetan reading. In Tibetan reading, both spaces and tshegs are effective visual syllable segmentation cues, and spaces are more effective visual syllable segmentation cues than tshegs. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9822970/ /pubmed/36609398 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25759-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Danhui Zeng, Man Zhao, Han Gao, Lei Li, Shan Niu, Zibei Bai, Xuejun Gao, Xiaolei Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading |
title | Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading |
title_full | Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading |
title_fullStr | Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading |
title_short | Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading |
title_sort | effects of syllable boundaries in tibetan reading |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9822970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36609398 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25759-1 |
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