A further look at ageing and word predictability effects in Chinese reading: Evidence from one-character words.

ABSTRACT: Older adults are thought to compensate for slower lexical processing by making greater use of contextual knowledge, relative to young adults, to predict words in sentences. Accordingly, compared to young adults, older adults should produce larger contextual predictability effects in reading times and skipping rates for words. Empirical support for this account is nevertheless scarce. Perhaps the clearest evidence to date comes from a recent Chinese study showing larger word predictability effects for older adults in reading times but not skipping rates for two-character words. However, one possibility is that the absence of a word-skipping effect in this experiment was due to the older readers skipping words infrequently because of difficulty processing two-character words parafoveally. We

SUBMITTER: Zhao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745612 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature