TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hyona, Jukka
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Vainio, Seppo
T1  - Morphological structure influences the initial landing position in words during reading Finnish
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - The preferred viewing location in words [Rayner, K. (1979). Eye guidance in reading: Fixation locations within words. Perception, 8, 21–30] during reading is near the word centre. Parafoveal word length information is utilized to guide the eyes toward it. A recent study by Yan and colleagues [Yan, M., Zhou, W., Shu, H., Yusupu, R., Miao, D., Krügel, A., & Kliegl, R. (2014). Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language. Cognition, 132, 181–215] demonstrated that the word’s morphological structure may also be used in saccadic targeting. The study was conducted in a morphologically rich language, Uighur. The present study aimed at replicating their main findings in another morphologically rich language, Finnish. Similarly to Yan et al., it was found that the initial fixation landed closer to the word beginning for morphologically complex than for monomorphemic words. Word frequency, saccade launch site, and word length were also found to influence the initial landing position. It is concluded that in addition to low-level factors (word length and saccade launch site), also higher level factors related to the word’s morphological structure and frequency may be utilized in saccade programming during reading.
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Morphological structure
KW  - Reading
KW  - Saccades
KW  - Word frequency
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1267233
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 71
IS  - 1
SP  - 122
EP  - 130
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Yusupu, Rizwangul
A1  - Miao, Dongxia
A1  - Kruegel, Andre
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language
JF  - Cognition : international journal of cognitive science
N2  - It is generally accepted that low-level features (e.g., inter-word spaces) are responsible for saccade-target selection in eye-movement control during reading. In two experiments using Uighur script known for its rich suffixes, we demonstrate that, in addition to word length and launch site, the number of suffixes influences initial landing positions. We also demonstrate an influence of word frequency. These results are difficult to explain purely by low-level guidance of eye movements and indicate that due to properties specific to Uighur script low-level visual information and high-level information such as morphological structure of parafoveal words jointly influence saccade programming. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Eye movements
KW  - Morphological structure
KW  - Landing position
KW  - Uighur
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.008
SN  - 0010-0277
SN  - 1873-7838
VL  - 132
IS  - 2
SP  - 181
EP  - 215
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -