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Topic-Shift Effect During Repeated Reading: An Eye Movement Study on Text of Different Structure

CUI Lei, WANG Sui-ping, ZHAO Juan, YANG Xiao-ying   

  1. Department of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631
  • Online:2006-10-15 Published:2006-10-15

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Abstract: Using eye-movement technique, the present study tried to probe the changing characters of topic-shift effect during repeated reading of articles that have different styles of structure.One kind of the articles has sentences of parallel relationship in each paragraph and the other one has a topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph.The results show that there is prominent topic-shift effect in the init ial reading for the two kinds of article but not when rereading the same text in subsequent readings.The absence of topic-shift effect suggests that readers construct a mental representation of the text's topic structure during the initial reading and use the representation to guide subsequent readings, which supports the common-strategy hypothesis.It means that readers will construct a good representation of the topic structure during reading no matter if there are signals in the article.

Key words: eye movement technique, topic-shift effect, representation of topic structure

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