Is Preview Benefit from Word n + 2 a Common Effect in Reading Chinese? Evidence from Eye Movements

Autor/inn/en	Yang, Jinmian; Rayner, Keith; Li, Nan; Wang, Suiping
Titel	Is Preview Benefit from Word n + 2 a Common Effect in Reading Chinese? Evidence from Eye Movements
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25 (2012) 5, S.1079-1091 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-010-9282-7
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Form Classes (Languages); Human Body; Chinese; Reading; Experiments; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Analytischer Sprachbau; Menschlicher Körper; China; Chinesen; Leseprozess; Lesen; Erprobung; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Although most studies of reading English (and other alphabetic languages) have indicated that readers do not obtain preview benefit from word n + 2, Yang, Wang, Xu, and Rayner (2009) reported evidence that Chinese readers obtain preview benefit from word n + 2. However, this effect may not be common in Chinese because the character prior to the target word in Yang et al.'s experiment was always a very high frequency function word. In the current experiment, we utilized a relatively low frequency word n + 1 to examine whether an n + 2 preview benefit effect would still exist and failed to find any preview benefit from word n + 2. These results are consistent with a recent study which indicated that foveal load modulates the perceptual span during Chinese reading (Yan, Kliegl, Shu, Pan, & Zhou, 2010). Implications of these results for models of eye movement control are discussed. (Contains 7 footnotes and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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