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The Effects of word length and suffixation on eye movement control in Turkish reading
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Bozkurt, Tuğçe Nur
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Findings in reading research literature reveal that eyes do not move randomly during reading; instead, they follow patterns that enable studying cognitive processes underlying reading. Recent studies report the first fixation on a word as the major measure of lexical influences in reading. Subsequent fixations on a word are usually assumed to have different roles than the first fixation. In the present study, the relationship between the first fixation and subsequent fixations is investigated by taking into account the role of suffixation. The fixation strategies of readers are examined in two experiments by controlling the factors that affect eye movement patterns. The results reveal lexical effects on morphological processing for short and frequent words through the analysis of individual fixations. The study suggests that early lexical effects on words are best observed through the single fixation duration on the words whereas the subsequent fixations have potential to provide an indication of effects related to suffixation.
Subject Keywords
Reading.
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Cognition.
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Eye tracking.
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Turkish language.
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Word recognition.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26785
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T. N. Bozkurt, “The Effects of word length and suffixation on eye movement control in Turkish reading,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2017.
