Parafoveal Processing of Orthographic,Phonological and Semantic Information in Chinese Character Identification from Character Located on Position N+2
Readers could obtain lexical information not only from foveal characters but also from the characters to the right of the fixation during reading.As the basic unit of written Chinese,a character covers all information about orthography,phonology,semantics which readers ought to process.Using the parafoveal priming paradigm,three experiments were conducted systematically in this study.The or-thographic,phonological,and semantic information activation of Chinese characters located on position N+2 was investigated in the rec-ognition of Chinese characters.The results were as follows:Readers could obtain orthographic and semantic from characters located on position N+2,but it was difficult to obtain phonological information.Orthographic information was activated first,and thus semantic in-formation was available more quickly than phonological information.Results in the present study thus reflect that Chinese readers were not only able to preview the low-level information(orthographic information)but also process high-level information like semantic in-formation from characters in the parafoveal,which is different from the research finding of alphabetic script.Secondly,the semantic infor-mation of Chinese characters can be directly obtained from orthography and may not necessarily be mediated by phonology.Our findings reveal the characteristics of parafoveal Chinese processing and provide a reference to enriching model of Chinese characters recognition.
Chinese character recognitionparafovealorthographyphonologysemantics
万方数据
维普
