TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Luo, Yingyi
A1  - Inhoff, Albrecht W.
T1  - Syllable articulation influences foveal and parafoveal processing of words during the silent reading of Chinese sentences
T2  - Journal of memory and language
N2  - The current study examined effects of syllable articulation on eye movements during the silent reading of Chinese sentences, which contained two types of two-character target words whose second characters were subject to dialect-specific variation. In one condition the second syllable was articulated with a neutral tone for northern-dialect Chinese speakers and with a full tone for southern-dialect Chinese speakers (neutral-tone target words) and in the other condition the second syllable was articulated with a full tone irrespective of readers' dialect type (full-tone target words). Native speakers of northern and southern Chinese dialects were recruited in Experiment 1 to examine the effect of dialect-specific articulation on silent reading. Recordings of their eye movements revealed shorter viewing durations for neutral- than for full-tone target words only for speakers of northern but not for southern dialects, indicating that dialect-specific articulation of syllabic tone influenced visual word recognition. Experiment 2 replicated the syllabic tone effect for speakers of northern dialects, and the use of gaze-contingent display changes further revealed that these readers processed an upcoming parafoveal word less effectively when a neutral- than when a full-tone target was fixated. Shorter viewing duration for neutral-tone words thus cannot be attributed to their easier lexical processing; instead, tonal effects appear to reflect Chinese readers' simulated articulation of to-be-recognized words during silent reading. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KW  - Articulation duration
KW  - Neutral tone
KW  - Syllabic tone
KW  - Sentence reading
KW  - Chinese
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37675
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 75
SP  - 93
EP  - 103
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -