1. The effects of lexical- and sentence-level contextual cues on Chinese word segmentation.
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Huang, Linjieqiong and Li, Xingshan
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CHINESE language , *LEXICAL access , *CATHODE ray tubes , *STATISTICAL power analysis - Abstract
This article discusses a study that explores how Chinese readers use contextual cues to segment words in Chinese texts. The study found that both lexical-level and sentence-level contextual cues are important for word segmentation, with higher frequency words and words favored by the sentence context being more likely to be segmented correctly. The study also found that readers may use the sentence-level cue earlier in the segmentation process. Another experiment using eye-tracking technology showed that the presence of semantically related words and sentence-level context influenced readers' segmentation of sentences. Overall, the study suggests that Chinese readers rely on both types of contextual cues when segmenting words. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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