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The effect of age of acquisition on fixation durations in Korean reading: An eye tracking study

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2010, v.22 no.2, pp.129-142
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2010.22.2.001


& (2010). The effect of age of acquisition on fixation durations in Korean reading: An eye tracking study. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 22(2), 129-142, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2010.22.2.001

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of age of acquisition(AoA) on skilled reading using eyetracking. Although many studies have suggested that AoA would affect the performance of skilled readers, the issue of AoA in reading has been a controversial and much disputed subject within the field of psycholinguistics. Zevin & Seidenberg(2002, 2004) have presented an important methodological critique of previous studies of AoA effects. They argued that previous studies would have not found AoA effects if cumulative frequency had been controlled adequately. The main issue addressed in this paper is whether AoA effect would be found when subjective frequency, which is assumed to replace cumulative frequency, is controlled. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences with early and late acquired words controlled on SF. Single fixation duration, first fixation duration, and gaze duration of early acquired words were shorter than those of late acquired words. In Experiment 2, other participants also read sentences with high and low frequency words controlled on AoA. There was no frequency effect for single fixation duration, first fixation duration, and gaze duration. Results from these two experiments demonstrate that AoA affects eye fixation durations during sentence reading.

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Age of acquisition, Korean, cumulative frequency, eye movement, 습득연령, 한국어, 누적빈도, 안구운동

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