title: Lexical and sublexical semantic preview benefits in Chinese reading.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. mingyan@unipotsdam.de
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kliegl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics