Semantic and plausibility effects on preview benefit during eye fixations in Chinese reading

Reading and Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1031-1052

  Yang, Jinmian ^a   Wang, Suiping ^b   Tong, Xiuhong ^b   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Preview benefit; Reading Chinese; Semantic and plausibility effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860375323     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9281-8     Document Type: Article

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