The role of character positional frequency in oral reading: A developmental study

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Kunyu Lian
Jie Ma
Feifei Liang
Ling Wei
Shuwei Zhang
Yingying Wu
Xuejun Bai
Rong Lian
Cite this article:  Lian, K., Ma, J., Liang, F., Wei, L., Zhang, S., Wu, Y., Bai, X., & Lian, R. (2021). The role of character positional frequency in oral reading: A developmental study. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 49(1), e9733.


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How frequently a character appears in a word (positional character frequency) is used as a cue in word segmentation when reading aloud in the Chinese language. In this study we created 176 sentences with a target word in the center of each. Participants were 76 college students (mature readers) and 76 third-grade students (beginner readers). Results show an interaction effect of age and positional frequency of the initial character in the word on gaze duration. Further analysis shows that the third-grade students’ gaze duration was significantly longer in high, relative to low, positional character frequency of the target words. This trend was consistent with refixation duration, and there was a marginally significant interaction between age and total fixation time. Overall, positional character frequency was an important cue for word segmentation in oral reading in the Chinese language, and third-grade students relied more heavily on this cue than did college students.

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