ERIC Number: EJ964194
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Publication Date: 2012-May
Pages: 26
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Eye Movements and Parafoveal Processing during Reading in Korean
Kim, Young-Suk; Radach, Ralph; Vorstius, Christian
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v25 n5 p1053-1078 May 2012
Parafoveal word processing was examined during Korean reading. Twenty-four native speakers of Korean read sentences in two conditions while their eye movements were being monitored. The boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975) was used to create a mismatch between characters displayed before and after an eye movement contingent display change. In the first condition, the critical previews were correct case markers in terms of syntactic category (e.g., object marker for an object noun) but with a phonologically incorrect form (e.g., using [Korean character omitted] instead of [Korean character omitted] when the preceding noun ends with a consonant). In the second condition, incorrect case markers in terms of syntactic category were used, creating a semantic mismatch between preview and target. Results include a small but significant parafovea-on-fovea effect on the preceding fixation, combined with a large effect on late measures of target word reading when a syntactically incorrect preview was presented. These results indicate that skilled Korean readers are quite sensitive to high-level linguistic information available in the parafovea.
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Nouns, Human Body, Word Processing, Native Speakers, Reading, Phonemes, Models
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