Chinese idioms are likely to be represented and processed as Multi-Constituent Units
(MCUs, a multi-word unit with a single lexical representation, see Zang, 2019). Chinese …

An influential account of normative aging effects on reading holds that older adults make
greater use of contextual predictability to facilitate word identification. However, supporting …

Recent eye-movement evidence suggests readers are more likely to skip a high-frequency
word than a low-frequency word independently of the semantic or syntactic acceptability of …

The Chinese writing system is different from English in that individual words both comprise
one to four characters and are not separated by clear word boundaries (eg, interword …

Moving the eyes is one of the most frequent behavioral activities one engage in during their
waking hours. Indeed, one typically move their eyes three to four times per second …

The perceptual span in Chinese reading extends one character to the left and three to the
right of the point of fixation. Thus, four-character idioms and phrases often extend rightward …

在阅读过程中, 读者并不会注视每一个词, 而是不断地跳过很多词. 在英文阅读中至少有30%
的词被跳读, 在中文阅读中近50% 的字词被跳读. 那么被跳读的字词是否得到加工 …

本研究采用边界范式, 通过操纵预视词和目标词的词类一致性探讨中文阅读中副中央凹中能否
加工词类信息. 实验采用单因素3 水平设计, 三种预视条件: 一致预视, 词类不违背预视 …

Two experiments are reported to investigate whether Chinese readers skip a high-frequency
preview word without taking the syntax of the sentence context into account. In Experiment 1 …

The frequency and contextual predictability of words have a fundamental role in determining
where and when the eyes move during reading in both alphabetic and non-alphabetic …