Lexical and sublexical semantic preview benefits in Chinese reading.

Yan, Ming; Zhou, Wei; Shu, Hua; Kliegl, Reinhold

doi:10.1037/a0026935

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“…However, most reading studies on English have not revealed evidence of semantic information being processed parafoveally (Altarriba, Kambe, Pollatsek, & Rayner, 2001;Rayner, Balota, & Pollatsek, 1986;Rayner, Schotter, & Drieghe, 2014). In contrast, the semantic preview effect is quite robust and has been found in a number of studies on Chinese (Yan, Richter, Shu, & Kliegl, 2009;Yan, Zhou, Shu, & Kliegl, 2012). These results suggest that semantic processing may occur differently during Chinese reading and the reading of alphabetic languages, and it is very likely that Chinese readers can perceive semantic information more easily because they receive more information through parafoveal vision during sentence reading.…”

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Semantic information mediates visual attention during spoken word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from the printed-word version of the visual-world paradigm

Shen

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

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In the present study, we investigated whether the activation of semantic information during spoken word recognition can mediate visual attention's deployment to printed Chinese words. We used a visual-world paradigm with printed words, in which participants listened to a spoken target word embedded in a neutral spoken sentence while looking at a visual display of printed words. We examined whether a semantic competitor effect could be observed in the printedword version of the visual-world paradigm. In Experiment 1, the relationship between the spoken target words and the printed words was manipulated so that they were semantically related (a semantic competitor), phonologically related (a phonological competitor), or unrelated (distractors). We found that the probability of fixations on semantic competitors was significantly higher than that of fixations on the distractors. In Experiment 2, the orthographic similarity between the spoken target words and their semantic competitors was manipulated to further examine whether the semantic competitor effect was modulated by orthographic similarity. We found significant semantic competitor effects regardless of orthographic similarity. Our study not only reveals that semantic information can affect visual attention, it also provides important new insights into the methodology employed to investigate the semantic processing of spoken words during spoken word recognition using the printed-word version of the visualworld paradigm.Keywords Semantic processing . Printed-word paradigm . Spoken word recognition . Chinese . Eye movements Examining the types of information involved in spoken word recognition and their effects on visual attention can help us better understand how information from the visual and auditory modalities interacts to influence eye movements. In the present study, we investigated whether the activation of semantic information in spoken word recognition can mediate the deployment of visual attention to printed Chinese words.

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Semantic information mediates visual attention during spoken word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from the printed-word version of the visual-world paradigm

Shen

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Chen and Allport (1995) were the first to demonstrate that semantic radicals only influence participants' performance in semantic comparison task, and that phonetic radicals only influence participants' performance in phonological comparison task. Numerous studies have separately investigated the functional roles of semantic radicals (Chen & Weekes, 2004;Feldman & Siok, 1999a, 1999bLeck et al, 1995;Yan, Zhou, Shu, & Kliegl, 2012) and phonetic radicals (Flores d' Arcais et al, 1995;Hue, 1992;Lee et al, 2004Lee et al, , 2007Liu et al, 1996Liu et al, , 2003Saito et al, 1998;Seidenberg, 1985;Tzeng, Lin, Hung, & Lee, 1995;Zhou & Marslen-Wilson, 1999). Until now, there seems to be no consensus about how the function of the radicals is implemented in Chinese character processing.…”

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Binding radicals in Chinese character recognition: Evidence from repetition blindness

Chen

Yeh

2015

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…14! identification and reading (Wang et al, 2013;Yan et al, 2012). In stark contrast to Chinese, because Finnish and English are alphabetic, the written form is horizontally spatially extended to a greater degree, with the constituent letters of words being presented horizontally adjacent to each other.…”

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Universality in eye movements and reading: A trilingual investigation

Liversedge

Drieghe

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Cognition

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Universality in language has been a core issue in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics for many years (e.g., Chomsky, 1965). Recently, Frost (2012) has argued that establishing universals of process is critical to the development of meaningful, theoretically motivated, cross-linguistic models of reading. In contrast, other researchers argue that there is no such thing as universals of reading (e.g., Coltheart & Crain, 2012). Reading is a complex, visually mediated psychological process, and eye movements are the behavioral means by which we encode the visual information required for linguistic processing. To investigate universality of representation and process across languages we examined eye movement behavior during reading of very comparable stimuli in three languages, Chinese, English and Finnish. These languages differ in numerous respects (character based vs. alphabetic, visual density, informational density, word spacing, orthographic depth, agglutination, etc.). We used Linear mixed modelling techniques to identify variables that captured common variance across languages. Despite fundamental visual and linguistic differences in the orthographies, statistical models of reading behavior were strikingly similar in a number of respects, and thus, we argue that their composition might reflect universality of representation and process in reading.! 3!

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Lexical and sublexical semantic preview benefits in Chinese reading.

Cited by 80 publications

References 45 publications

Semantic information mediates visual attention during spoken word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from the printed-word version of the visual-world paradigm

Semantic information mediates visual attention during spoken word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from the printed-word version of the visual-world paradigm

Binding radicals in Chinese character recognition: Evidence from repetition blindness

Universality in eye movements and reading: A trilingual investigation

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