Perceptual span in reading Aksharic Kannada

Title

Perceptual span in reading Aksharic Kannada

Creator

Pandey A.; Padakannaya P.

Description

Perceptual span, the effective visual field in reading covered in a single fixation, varies across orthographies. The perceptual span for reading English covers 34-character spaces to the left of fixation and around 1415-character spaces to the right of the fixation while for Chinese it is one character space to the left and 3-character spaces to the right of the fixation. In the present study, we estimated the perceptual span for Kannada, a major South Indian language written in akshara (abugida type) using the gaze-contingent moving window paradigm. We recorded eye movements from skilled Kannada readers when they read sentences in different window sizes and compared the eye movement measures with that of full-length sentence reading. Results showed that the perceptual span for Kannada covers one akshara to the left and 6-akshara to the right of the fixation. Future studies need to establish whether all Akshara orthographies show a similar percentual span. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.

Source

Reading and Writing, Vol-36, No. 9, pp. 2499-2521.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

Subject

Akshara; Kannada; Moving window paradigm; Perceptual span; Reading; Reading aloud

Coverage

Pandey A., Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Argul, 752050, India; Padakannaya P., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bengaluru, 560029, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 9224777

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10390-3

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