TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Yan, Ming
T1  - A validation of parafoveal semantic information extraction in reading Chinese
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9817.2013.01556.x
SN  - 0141-0423
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SP  - S51
EP  - S63
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Zhou, Wei
A1  - Shu, Hua
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
T1  - Lexical and sublexical semantic preview benefits in chinese reading
JF  - Journal of experimental psychology : Learning, memory, and cognition
N2  - Semantic processing from parafoveal words is an elusive phenomenon in alphabetic languages, but it has been demonstrated only for a restricted set of noncompound Chinese characters. Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm, this experiment examined whether parafoveal lexical and sublexical semantic information was extracted from compound preview characters. Results generalized parafoveal semantic processing to this representative set of Chinese characters and extended the parafoveal processing to radical (sublexical) level semantic information extraction. Implications for notions of parafoveal information extraction during Chinese reading are discussed.
KW  - semantic
KW  - preview benefit
KW  - reading
KW  - Chinese
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026935
SN  - 0278-7393
VL  - 38
IS  - 4
SP  - 1069
EP  - 1075
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -