Predictability effects and parafoveal processing of compound words in natural Chinese reading

We report a boundary paradigm eye movement experiment to investigate whether the predictability of second character two-character compound word affects how it is processed prior direct fixation during reading. The was positioned immediately target word, which itself either predictable or unpredictable. preview pseudocharacter (nonsense preview) an identity preview. obtained clear effects in all conditions, but more importantly, skipping probability for and whole from pretarget greater when than not preceding context. Interactive later measures on (gaze duration go-past time) were also obtained. These results demonstrate that information sentential context regarding likely upcoming characters are used concurrently constrain nature lexical processing natural Chinese