The Effect of Word Predictability on the Eye Movements of Chinese Readers

Overview

Journal Psychon Bull Rev

Specialty Psychology

Date 2006 Apr 18

PMID 16615333

Citations 30

Authors

Keith Rayner

Xingshan Li

Barbara J Juhasz

Guoli Yan

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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.

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