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- German skilled readers use both morphological and syllable processing when recognizing words, but the importance of each is unclear.
- A study using eye-tracking technology examined whether readers preferred syllables or morphemes by visually marking words with color changes or hyphens at different boundaries.
- Results showed no change in eye movements with color alternation, but hyphens that disrupted syllables slowed reading more than those disrupting morphemes, indicating a greater reliance on syllable structure in reading.
Article Abstract
German skilled readers have been found to engage in morphological and syllable-based processing in visual word recognition. However, the relative reliance on syllables and morphemes in reading multi-syllabic complex words is still unresolved. This study aimed to unveil which of these sublexical units are the preferred units of reading by employing eye-tracking technology. Participants silently read sentences while their eye-movements were recorded. Words were visually marked using colour alternation (Experiment 1) or hyphenation (Experiment 2)-at syllable boundary (e.g., ), at morpheme boundary (e.g., ), or within the units themselves (e.g., ). A control condition without disruptions was used as a baseline (e.g., ). The results of Experiment 1 showed that eye-movements were not modulated by colour alternations. The results of Experiment 2 indicated that hyphens disrupting syllables had a larger inhibitory effect on reading times than hyphens disrupting morphemes, suggesting that eye-movements in German skilled readers are more influenced by syllabic than morphological structure.
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