Parafoveal Processing of Word n + 2 during Reading: Do the Preceding Words Matter?

Autor/inn/en	Angele, Bernhard; Rayner, Keith
Titel	Parafoveal Processing of Word n + 2 during Reading: Do the Preceding Words Matter?
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37 (2011) 4, S.1210-1220 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0023096
Schlagwörter	Models; Hypothesis Testing; Evidence; Vision; Visual Acuity; Word Frequency; Reading Processes; Eye Movements; Language Processing; Word Recognition; Attention; Resource Allocation; College Students; Sentences; Time; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Evidenz; Optisches Differenzierungsvermögen; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Leseprozess; Augenbewegung; Sprachverarbeitung; Worterkennung; Aufmerksamkeit; Ressourcenallokation; Collegestudent; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Zeit; Kalifornien
Abstract	We used the boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975) to test two hypotheses that might explain why no conclusive evidence has been found for the existence of n + 2 preprocessing effects. In Experiment 1, we tested whether parafoveal processing of the second word to the right of fixation (n + 2) takes place only when the preceding word (n + 1) is very short (Angele, Slattery, Yang, Kliegl, & Rayner, 2008); word n + 1 was always a three-letter word. Before crossing the boundary, preview for both words n + 1 and n + 2 was either incorrect or correct. In a third condition, only the preview for word n + 1 was incorrect. In Experiment 2, we tested whether word frequency of the preboundary word (n) had an influence on the presence of preview benefit and parafoveal-on-foveal effects. Additionally, Experiment 2 contained a condition in which only preview of n + 2 was incorrect. Our findings suggest that effects of parafoveal n + 2 preprocessing are not modulated by either n + 1 word length or n frequency. Furthermore, we did not observe any evidence of parafoveal lexical preprocessing of word n + 2 in either experiment. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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