@article{YanLuoInhoff2014,
  author    = {Yan, Ming and Luo, Yingyi and Inhoff, Albrecht W.},
  title     = {Syllable articulation influences foveal and parafoveal processing of words during the silent reading of Chinese sentences},
  series = {Journal of memory and language},
  volume    = {75},
  journal   = {Journal of memory and language},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {San Diego},
  issn      = {0749-596X},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jml.2014.05.007},
  pages     = {93 -- 103},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WangZhouShuetal.2014,
  author    = {Wang, Aiping and Zhou, Wei and Shu, Hua and Yan, Ming},
  title     = {Reading proficiency modulates parafoveal processing efficiency: Evidence from reading Chinese as a second language},
  series = {Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics},
  volume    = {152},
  journal   = {Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0001-6918},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.010},
  pages     = {29 -- 33},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {In the present study, we manipulated different types of information available in the parafovea during the reading of Chinese sentences and examined how native Korean readers who learned Chinese as a second language make use of the parafoveal information. Results clearly indicate that, only identical and orthographically similar previews facilitated processing of the target words when they were subsequently fixated. More critically, more parafoveal information was obtained by subjects with higher reading proficiency. These results suggest that, mainly low-level features of the parafoveal words are obtained by the non-native Chinese readers and less attentional resources are available for the readers with lower reading proficiency, thereby causing a reduction of the perceptual span.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PanYanLaubrocketal.2014,
  author    = {Pan, Jinger and Yan, Ming and Laubrock, Jochen and Shu, Hua and Kliegl, Reinhold},
  title     = {Saccade-target selection of dyslexic children when reading Chinese},
  series = {Vision research : an international journal for functional aspects of vision.},
  volume    = {97},
  journal   = {Vision research : an international journal for functional aspects of vision.},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0042-6989},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.visres.2014.01.014},
  pages     = {24 -- 30},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {This study investigates the eye movements of dyslexic children and their age-matched controls when reading Chinese. Dyslexic children exhibited more and longer fixations than age-matched control children, and an increase of word length resulted in a greater increase in the number of fixations and gaze durations for the dyslexic than for the control readers. The report focuses on the finding that there was a significant difference between the two groups in the fixation landing position as a function of word length in single-fixation cases, while there was no such difference in the initial fixation of multi-fixation cases. We also found that both groups had longer incoming saccade amplitudes while the launch sites were closer to the word in single fixation cases than in multi-fixation cases. Our results suggest that dyslexic children's inefficient lexical processing, in combination with the absence of orthographic word boundaries in Chinese, leads them to select saccade targets at the beginning of words conservatively. These findings provide further evidence for parafoveal word segmentation during reading of Chinese sentences.},
  language  = {en}
}