Tone and word length across languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The aim of this paper is to show evidence of a statistical dependency of the presence of tones on word length. Other work has made it clear that there is a strong inverse correlation between population size and word length.
Søren Wichmann
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Cross-linguistic conditions on word length. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Based on a dataset representing close to ¾ of the world's languages we investigate differences among languages and between items on the Swadesh list with regard to mean word length from a linguistic typological point of view.
Søren Wichmann, Eric W Holman
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Eye Movement Control in Tibetan Reading: The Roles of Word Length and Frequency [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 We investigated the effects of word length and frequency on eye movement control during Tibetan reading through two experiments. A preliminary experiment examined the predictive effect of word length and frequency on fixation duration and landing ...
Xiao-Wei Li +8 more
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A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Previous studies examining the link between visual word recognition and eye movements have shown that eye movements reflect the time-course of cognitive processes involved in reading.
Hend Lahoud +5 more
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Effects of word length and word frequency among dyslexic, ADHD-I and typical readers [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2022 This study aimed to investigate the neuropsycholinguistic functioning of children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – inattentive subtype (ADHD-I) in a reading task. The psycholinguistic profile of both groups
Norberto Pereira +2 more
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Oculomotor Behavior of L2 Readers with Typologically Distant L1 Background: The “Big Three” Effects of Word Length, Frequency, and Predictability [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement ResearchOculomotor reading behavior is influenced by both universal factors, like the “big three” of word length, frequency, and contextual predictability, and language-specific factors, such as script and grammar.
Marina Norkina +3 more
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Frequency, Informativity and Word Length: Insights from Typologically Diverse Corpora [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 Zipf’s law of abbreviation, which posits a negative correlation between word frequency and length, is one of the most famous and robust cross-linguistic generalizations. At the same time, it has been shown that contextual informativity (average surprisal
Natalia Levshina
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The influence of contextual constraint and word length on eye movement control during Chinese reading [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyGiven that Chinese text lacks explicit spaces to mark word boundaries, readers need to segment the continuous text into words of varying lengths. Contextual information helps determine word boundaries in Chinese reading.
Weiqiong Jin +4 more
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How Does Word Length Evolve in Written Chinese? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 We demonstrate a substantial evidence that the word length can be an essential lexical structural feature for word evolution in written Chinese. The data used in this study are diachronic Chinese short narrative texts with a time span of over 2000-years.
Heng Chen, Junying Liang, Haitao Liu
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Word Length Effect in Free Recall of Randomly Assembled Word Lists [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2014 In serial recall experiments, human subjects are requested to retrieve a list of words in the same order as they were presented. In a classical study, participants were reported to recall more words from study lists composed of short words compared to ...
Mikhail eKatkov +2 more
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