Two eye-tracking experiments in alphabetic Finnish and two in logographic Chinese examined the recognition of two-constituent compound words in reading. In Finnish, two-constituent compound words vary greatly in length, whereas in Chinese they are identical in length. According to the visual acuity principle (Bertram & Hyönä, 2003), short Finnish compound words and all two-character Chinese compound words that fit in foveal vision are recognized holistically, whereas long Finnish compound words are recognized via components. Experiment 1 in Finnish provided evidence consistent with the account, whereas the results for long compound words presented in condensed font in Experiment 2 were inconsistent with it. In Chinese, the first-character frequency effect was non-significant even when the compound words were presented in large font. The Finnish results suggest that componential processing is necessary when the compound word entails more than 10 letters. The Chinese results are compatible with the Chinese Reading Model (Li & Pollatsek, 2020) that assumes whole-word representations to overrule the activation of components during compound word recognition.

两项用芬兰字母字母进行的眼动追踪实验和两项用表意汉语进行的眼动追踪实验检验了阅读中双成分复合词的识别情况。在芬兰语中，双成分复合词的长度差异很大，而在中文中，它们的长度相同。根据视敏度原理（Bertram & Hyönä，2003），短的芬兰语复合词和所有适合中心凹视觉的二字中文复合词是整体识别的，而长的芬兰语复合词是通过成分来识别的。芬兰语实验 1 提供了与该描述一致的证据，而实验 2 中以压缩字体呈现的长复合词的结果与之不一致。在中文中，即使复合词以大字体呈现，首字频​​率效应也不显着。芬兰的结果表明，当复合词包含超过 10 个字母时，需要进行成分处理。中文结果与中文阅读模型（ Li & Pollat​​sek，2020 ）兼容，该模型假设全词表示推翻复合词识别过程中组件的激活。