A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency
Previous studies examining the link between visual word recognition and eye movements have shown that eye movements reflect the time-course of cognitive processes involved in reading. Whereas most studies have been undertaken in Western European languages written in the Roman alphabet, the present d...
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description | Previous studies examining the link between visual word recognition and eye movements have shown that eye movements reflect the time-course of cognitive processes involved in reading. Whereas most studies have been undertaken in Western European languages written in the Roman alphabet, the present developmental study investigates a non-European language—Hebrew, which is written in a non-alphabetic (abjadic) script. We compared the eye-movements of children in Grades 4 to 6 (N = 30) and university students (N = 30) reading familiar real words and unfamiliar (pseudo)words of 3 letters and 5 letters in length. Using linear mixed models, we focused on the effects of word familiarity, word length, and age group. Our results highlight both universal aspects of word reading (developmental and familiarity (lexicality) effects) as well as language-specific word length effect which appears to be related to the unique morphological and orthographic features of the Semitic abjad. |
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spelling | doaj.art-9ba684540e224e59b1cb5786b85cf41e2023-07-07T13:50:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-07-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.10527551052755A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiencyHend Lahoud0Hend Lahoud1David L. Share2David L. Share3Adi Shechter4Adi Shechter5Department of Learning Disabilities, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelEdmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelDepartment of Learning Disabilities, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelEdmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelDepartment of Learning Disabilities, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelEdmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelPrevious studies examining the link between visual word recognition and eye movements have shown that eye movements reflect the time-course of cognitive processes involved in reading. Whereas most studies have been undertaken in Western European languages written in the Roman alphabet, the present developmental study investigates a non-European language—Hebrew, which is written in a non-alphabetic (abjadic) script. We compared the eye-movements of children in Grades 4 to 6 (N = 30) and university students (N = 30) reading familiar real words and unfamiliar (pseudo)words of 3 letters and 5 letters in length. Using linear mixed models, we focused on the effects of word familiarity, word length, and age group. Our results highlight both universal aspects of word reading (developmental and familiarity (lexicality) effects) as well as language-specific word length effect which appears to be related to the unique morphological and orthographic features of the Semitic abjad.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1052755/fulleye movementHebrewword recognitionlexicalityreadingword length |
spellingShingle | Hend Lahoud Hend Lahoud David L. Share David L. Share Adi Shechter Adi Shechter A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency Frontiers in Psychology eye movement Hebrew word recognition lexicality reading word length |
title | A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency |
title_full | A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency |
title_fullStr | A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency |
title_full_unstemmed | A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency |
title_short | A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency |
title_sort | developmental study of eye movements in hebrew word reading the effects of word familiarity word length and reading proficiency |
topic | eye movement Hebrew word recognition lexicality reading word length |
url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1052755/full |
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