TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pan, Jinger
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
T1  - Perceptual span in oral reading
BT  - the case of Chinese
JF  - Scientific Studies of Reading
N2  - The present study explores the perceptual span, that is, the physical extent of the area from which useful visual information is obtained during a single fixation, during oral reading of Chinese sentences. Characters outside a window of legible text were replaced by visually similar characters. Results show that the influence of window size on the perceptual span was consistent across different fixation and oculomotor measures. To maintain normal reading behavior when reading aloud, it was necessary to have information provided from three characters to the right of the fixation. Together with findings from previous research, our findings suggest that the physical size of the perceptual span is smaller when reading aloud than in silent reading. This is in agreement with previous studies in English, suggesting that the mechanisms causing the reduced span in oral reading have a common base that generalizes across languages and writing systems.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2017.1283694
SN  - 1088-8438
SN  - 1532-799X
VL  - 21
SP  - 254
EP  - 263
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Miller, Kevin
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - Reliance on orthography and phonology in reading of Chinese
BT  - a developmental study
JF  - Journal of research in reading : a journal of the United Kingdom Reading Association
N2  - BackgroundDisruptions of reading processes due to text substitutions can measure how readers use lexical information. MethodsWith eye-movement recording, children and adults viewed sentences with either identical, orthographically similar, homophonic or unrelated substitutions of the first characters in target words. To the extent that readers rely on orthographic or phonological cues, substitutions that contain such cues should cause less disruption reading than do unrelated substitutions. ResultsOn pretarget words, there was a reliable reduction in gaze duration due to homophonic substitution only for children. On target words, we observed reliable recovery effects due to orthographic similarity for adults. On post-target words, adults had better orthographic-based and phonological-based recovery abilities than children. ConclusionsThe combination of eye movement recording and the error detection paradigm offers a novel implicit paradigm for studying reading development: during sentence reading, beginning readers of Chinese may rely on phonological mediation, while skilled readers have more direct access to semantics from orthography.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12111
SN  - 0141-0423
SN  - 1467-9817
VL  - 41
IS  - 2
SP  - 370
EP  - 391
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -