TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - A validation of parafoveal semantic information extraction in reading Chinese
T2  - Journal of research in reading : a journal of the United Kingdom Reading Association
N2  - Parafoveal semantic processing has recently been well documented in reading Chinese sentences, presumably because of language-specific features. However, because of a large variation of fixation landing positions on pretarget words, some preview words actually were located in foveal vision when readers' eyes landed close to the end of the pretarget words. None of the previous studies has completely ruled out a possibility that the semantic preview effects might mainly arise from these foveally processed preview words. This case, whether previously observed positive evidence for parafoveal semantic processing can still hold, has been called into question. Using linear mixed models, we demonstrate in this study that semantic preview benefit from word N+1 decreased if fixation on pretarget word N was close to the preview. We argue that parafoveal semantic processing is not a consequence of foveally processed preview words.
KW  - semantic
KW  - preview benefit
KW  - reading
KW  - Chinese
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35112
SN  - 0141-0423
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SP  - S51
EP  - S63
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -