Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2023 Mar;76(3):528-537. doi: 10.1177/17470218221094315. Epub 2022 May 18.
Previous studies suggested that readers were more likely to skip a word when it was previewed by a very-high-frequency word, like "the" in English and " ()" in Chinese, and they suggested that readers based skipping decisions on parafoveal word information rather than on sentence context. However, in these studies, the very-high-frequency preview word ( or ) was always implausible given the sentence context. It is an open question whether parafoveal word information interacts with sentence context to influence skipping decisions. Therefore, the current experiment orthogonally manipulated the preview information of the target character (identical or preview) and the plausibility of (plausible or implausible) to examine this question. The major results indicated that readers were more likely to skip the target character and made longer outgoing saccade length across the boundary in the preview condition than in the identical preview condition. What is more important, the interaction between the plausibility of and preview condition was significant: Readers' higher probability of skipping the target character and longer outgoing saccade length in the preview condition than in the identical preview condition was only significant when was plausible, suggesting that parafoveal word information and context information can act as a joint constraint on skipping decision in reading Chinese.
先前的研究表明，当预视的单词是高频词（如英语中的“the”和汉语中的“（）”）时，读者更有可能跳过该单词，并且他们认为读者的跳过决策是基于视副区单词信息而不是句子语境。然而，在这些研究中，高频预视单词（或）总是与句子语境不符。视副区单词信息是否与句子语境相互作用来影响跳过决策是一个悬而未决的问题。因此，当前的实验通过正交操纵目标字符的预视信息（相同或 预视）和 （合理或不合理）的可能性来检验这个问题。主要结果表明，与相同预视条件相比，读者在 预视条件下更有可能跳过目标字符，并在边界处做出更长的外向眼跳距离。更重要的是，和预视条件之间的相互作用是显著的：当 是合理的时，读者在 预视条件下比在相同预视条件下更有可能跳过目标字符，并且外向眼跳距离更长，这表明视副区单词信息和语境信息可以共同限制汉语阅读中的跳过决策。
