TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wang, Aiping
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - Reading proficiency modulates parafoveal processing efficiency: Evidence from reading Chinese as a second language
JF  - Acta psychologica : international journal of psychonomics
N2  - 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.
KW  - Parafoveal
KW  - Sentence reading
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Korean readers
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.010
SN  - 0001-6918
SN  - 1873-6297
VL  - 152
SP  - 29
EP  - 33
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
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
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2014.05.007
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 75
SP  - 93
EP  - 103
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -