title: Cross-language parafoveal semantic processing: Evidence from Korean-Chinese bilinguals.
abstract: In the present study, we aimed at testing cross-language cognate and semantic preview effects. We tested how native Korean readers who learned Chinese as a second language make use of the parafoveal information during the reading of Chinese sentences. There were 3 types of Korean preview words: cognate translations of the Chinese target words, semantically related noncognate words, and unrelated words. Together with a highly significant cognate preview effect, more critically, we also observed reliable facilitation in processing of the target word from the semantically related previews in all fixation measures. Results from the present study provide first evidence for semantic processing from parafoveally presented Korean words and for cross-language parafoveal semantic processing.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.|Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Aiping
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Junmo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yeon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, College of Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany. mingyan@uni-potsdam.de.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D019303:Multilingualism; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012660:Semantics
keywords: Bilingual; Chinese; Korean; Parafoveal; Semantics