Book chapter
Reading in Thai: visual and attentional processes
Attention and vision in language processing, pp.111-125
Springer, 1st
2015
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Abstract
Traditionally, reading research has focused on a limited number of languages and scripts. In order to delineate between universal and orthography-specific processes as well as build more comprehensive and representative universal models of reading, it is essential that we broaden this research (see Frost 2012). Although the overall goal of reading is to form a meaningful mental representation of text through decoding various visually complex symbols, the processes involved in attaining this goal substantially differ between orthographies. In order to effectively read and comprehend a text, readers need to attend to the distinctive visual features of the script which interface with the language of the reader. In this chapter, research on Thai has been used to illustrate how the distinctive features of orthography can influence the visual and attentional processes involved in visual word recognition and reading. The four areas of research that are focused on are (1) reading without interword spaces, (2) prominence of initial letter position and transposed-letter effects, (3) parafoveal-on-foveal effects, and (4) processing of lexical tone.
Details
- Title
- Reading in Thai: visual and attentional processes
- Creators
- Heather Winskel - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Ramesh Kumar Mishra (Editor of compilation)Narayanan Srinivasan (Editor of compilation)Falk Huettig (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Attention and vision in language processing, pp.111-125
- Publisher
- Springer; New Delhi, India
- Edition
- 1st
- Identifiers
- 3006; 991012821022702368
- Copyright
- © 2015 Springer India
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Human Sciences; School of Health and Human Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter