title: The effect of word predictability on the eye movements of Chinese readers.
abstract: Eye movements of Chinese readers were monitored as they read sentences containing target words whose predictability from the preceding context was high, medium, or low. Readers fixated for less time on high- and medium-predictable target words than on low-predictable target words. They were also more likely to fixate on low-predictable target words than on high- or medium-predictable target words. The results were highly similar to those of a study by Rayner and Well (1996) with English readers and demonstrate that Chinese readers, like readers of English, exploit target word predictability during reading.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA. rayner@psych.umass.edu
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rayner
authors.forename: Xingshan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Juhasz
authors.forename: Guoli
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011932:Reading; D014825:Vocabulary