Cultural Differences Flashcards
what is an example of a althabetical language with very different visual characteristcs?
arabic
Who was one of the first to study this language in relation to perceptual difficulties
Paterson and Jordan et al
What was similar between arabic and english?
readers fixate on longer words
Where is the OVP in arabic?
they fixate the centre of short words and to the right (closer to the beginning) of long words
The perceptual span is modified by what in althabetical languages?
the overall direction of reading
What other language was studied and why?
Chinese and because its a character based language, not althabetical
who did the research on this second language
Liu & Li et al
Where is the OVP for chinese readers
the first character of 2 character words and the second character for 3/4 character words
What are some age differences in this culture?
Older chinese readers recognised words more effectively when fixating the first character on words of any length
