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Parafoveal processing across different lexical constituents in Chinese reading

Parafoveal processing across different lexical constituents in Chinese reading
Parafoveal processing across different lexical constituents in Chinese reading
We report a boundary paradigm eye movement experiment to investigate whether the linguistic category of a two character Chinese string affects how the second character of that string is processed in the parafovea during reading. We obtained clear preview effects in all conditions, but more importantly, found parafoveal-on-foveal effects whereby a nonsense preview of the second character influenced fixations on the first character. This effect occurred for monomorphemic words, but not for compound words or phrases. Also, in a word boundary demarcation experiment, we demonstrate that Chinese readers are not always consistent in their judgments of which characters in a sentence comprise words. We conclude that information regarding the combinatorial properties of characters in Chinese is used on-line to moderate the extent to which parafoveal characters are processed.
1747-0218
403-416
Cui, L.
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Drieghe, Denis
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Yan, G.
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Chi, H.
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Cui, L.
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Yan, G.
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Bai, X.
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Chi, H.
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Cui, L., Drieghe, Denis, Yan, G., Bai, X., Chi, H. and Liversedge, Simon P. (2013) Parafoveal processing across different lexical constituents in Chinese reading. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66 (2), 403-416. (doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.720265).

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We report a boundary paradigm eye movement experiment to investigate whether the linguistic category of a two character Chinese string affects how the second character of that string is processed in the parafovea during reading. We obtained clear preview effects in all conditions, but more importantly, found parafoveal-on-foveal effects whereby a nonsense preview of the second character influenced fixations on the first character. This effect occurred for monomorphemic words, but not for compound words or phrases. Also, in a word boundary demarcation experiment, we demonstrate that Chinese readers are not always consistent in their judgments of which characters in a sentence comprise words. We conclude that information regarding the combinatorial properties of characters in Chinese is used on-line to moderate the extent to which parafoveal characters are processed.

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Published date: 2013
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 345925
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/345925
ISSN: 1747-0218
PURE UUID: 6358aed3-6ac9-42ae-ab1f-4c06f4086a88
ORCID for Denis Drieghe: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9630-8410

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Date deposited: 06 Dec 2012 11:52
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:34

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Author: L. Cui
Author: Denis Drieghe ORCID iD
Author: G. Yan
Author: X. Bai
Author: H. Chi
Author: Simon P. Liversedge

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