This study employed eye-tracking technology to investigate the impact of three different spacing conditions(word spacing,character spacing,and no spacing)on the reading of Hanyu Pinyin texts by native Chinese speakers(Chinese uni-versity students)and Learners of Chinese as a second language(CSL)(including Indo-European language speakers and Thai language speakers).The results indicated that compared to the no spacing condition,the word spacing and character spacing conditions are associated with shorter fixation duration,fewer fixations,and initial fixations that are closer to the center of words.Native speakers showed similar reading efficiency under word spacing and character spacing conditions.In contrast,CSL learners read word-spaced texts more efficiently than character-spaced texts,with the facilitating effect of word spacing being significantly greater for native speakers of Indo-European languages,who have word spacing in their native languages,than for Thai language speakers,whose native languages lack word spacing.This suggested that the impact of word spacing was modulated by learners'native writing system.
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