TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - CarPrice versus CarpRice: Word Boundary Ambiguity Influences Saccade Target Selection During the Reading of Chinese Sentences
T2  - Journal of experimental psychology : Learning, memory, and cognition
N2  - As a contribution to a theoretical debate about the degree of high-level influences on saccade targeting during sentence reading, we investigated eye movements during the reading of structurally ambiguous Chinese character strings and examined whether parafoveal word segmentation could influence saccade-target selection. As expected, ambiguous strings took longer to process. More critically there were theoretically relevant interactions between ambiguity and launch site when first-fixation location and saccade amplitude served as dependent variables: Ambiguous strings in the parafovea triggered longer saccades and more rightward fixations for close launch sites than unambiguous ones; the reverse result was obtained for far launch sites. These crossover interactions indicate that parafoveal word segmentation influences saccade generation in Chinese and provide support of the hypothesis that high-level information can be involved in the decision about where to fixate next.
KW  - Chinese
KW  - ambiguity
KW  - fixation location
KW  - parafoveal
KW  - word segmentation
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44764
SN  - 0278-7393
SN  - 1939-1285
VL  - 42
SP  - 1832
EP  - 1838
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -