Is preview benefit from word n + 2 a common effect in reading Chinese? Evidence from eye movements |
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| Authors: | Yang Jinmian Rayner Keith Li Nan Wang Suiping |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA;(2) Department of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China |
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| Abstract: | Although most studies of reading English (and other alphabetic languages) have indicated that readers do not obtain preview
benefit from word n + 2, Yang, Wang, Xu, and Rayner (2009) reported evidence that Chinese readers obtain preview benefit from word n + 2. However, this effect may not be common in
Chinese because the character prior to the target word in Yang et al.’s experiment was always a very high frequency function
word. In the current experiment, we utilized a relatively low frequency word n + 1 to examine whether an n + 2 preview benefit
effect would still exist and failed to find any preview benefit from word n + 2. These results are consistent with a recent
study which indicated that foveal load modulates the perceptual span during Chinese reading (Yan, Kliegl, Shu, Pan, & Zhou,
2010). Implications of these results for models of eye movement control are discussed. |
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