UC San Diego UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title The influence of contextual constraint on word recognition during reading Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37h586gm Author Plummer, Patrick Reynard Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO The Influence of Contextual Constraint on Word Recognition during Reading A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology by Patrick Reynard Plummer Committee in charge: Professor Victor Ferreira, Chair Professor David Barner Professor Seana Coulson Professor Roger Levy Professor John Wixted 2015 The Dissertation of Patrick Reynard Plummer is approved, and is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm and electronically: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Chair University of California, San Diego 2015 iii DEDICATION For Keith Rayner, a mentor who opened the doors for me, and whose door was always open for me. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Signature Page ............................................................................................................... iii Dedication ...................................................................................................................... iv Table of Contexts ........................................................................................................... v List of Figures ............................................................................................................... vii List of Tables ................................................................................................................. ix Vita ................................................................................................................................. x Abstract of the Dissertation ........................................................................................... xi Chapter 1 ........................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction......................................................................................................... 1 Eye movement control ........................................................................................ 1 Word Recognition ............................................................................................... 4 Contextual constraint and word predictability .................................................... 8 Word guessing accounts.................................................................................... 18 Interactive accounts .......................................................................................... 21 Post-lexical accounts ........................................................................................ 25 Predictions for eye movement behavior ........................................................... 28 Chapter 2 ...................................................................................................................... 32 Method .............................................................................................................. 38 Results............................................................................................................... 43 Discussion ......................................................................................................... 49 Chapter 3 ...................................................................................................................... 56 Method .............................................................................................................. 61 v Results............................................................................................................... 66 Discussion ......................................................................................................... 69 Chapter 4 ...................................................................................................................... 79 Method .............................................................................................................. 86 Results............................................................................................................... 90 Discussion ......................................................................................................... 94 Chapter 5 .................................................................................................................... 105 Method ............................................................................................................ 110 Results............................................................................................................. 113 Discussion ....................................................................................................... 115 Chapter 6 .................................................................................................................... 125 General Discussion ......................................................................................... 125 Appendix 2.1 .............................................................................................................. 129 Appendix 2.2 .............................................................................................................. 131 Appendix 3.1 .............................................................................................................. 135 Appendix 3.2 .............................................................................................................. 138 Appendix 4.1 .............................................................................................................. 146 Appendix 4.2 .............................................................................................................. 151 Appendix 5.1 .............................................................................................................. 161 References .................................................................................................................. 169 vi LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1 – Average first-pass skipping rates for target word across preview and predictability conditions ............................................................................................... 52 Figure 2.2 – Average first-pass skipping rates for target word across preview, similarity, and predictability conditions ....................................................................... 53 Figure 2.3 – Average gaze durations (ms) for target word across preview and predictability conditions ............................................................................................... 54 Figure 2.4 – Average go-past durations (ms) for target word across preview, similarity, and predictability conditions ........................................................................................ 55 Figure 3.1 – First-pass skipping rates on the target word across word predictability and preview conditions ........................................................................................................ 75 Figure 3.2 – First-pass skipping rates on the target word across word predictability condition and orthographic neighborhood size for high and low letter overlap ........... 76 Figure 3.3 – Gaze durations (ms) on the target word across word predictability and preview conditions. ....................................................................................................... 77 Figure 3.4 – Regression rates on target word across word preview and predictability conditions ..................................................................................................................... 78 Figure 4.1– First-pass skipping rates proportion across all preview and predictability conditions ................................................................................................................... 100 Figure 4.2 – First-pass skipping proportion for full previews and phonological previews across word length ...................................................................................... 101 Figure 4.3 – Gaze durations (ms) across full and orthographic control preview conditions for lower frequency words ........................................................................ 102 vii Figure 4.4 – Gaze durations (ms) across full and orthographic control preview conditions for short words .......................................................................................... 103 Figure 4.5 – Gaze durations (ms) across full and orthographic control preview conditions for long words ........................................................................................... 104 Figure 5.1 – Target word first-pass skipping rates across word predictability and bigram frequency ........................................................................................................ 121 Figure 5.2 – Target word first-pass skipping rates across word predictability, word length, and bigram frequency