%A LU Zijia, FU Ying, ZHANG Manman, ZANG Chuanli, BAI Xuejun %T Parafoveal processing of part-of-speech information in Chinese reading %0 Journal Article %D 2022 %J Acta Psychologica Sinica %R 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2022.00441 %P 441-452 %V 54 %N 5 %U {https://journal.psych.ac.cn/acps/CN/abstract/article_4988.shtml} %8 %X

In this study, the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm was used to explore whether the part-of-speech information of parafoveal words can be processed in Chinese reading by manipulating the part-of-speech consistency between the preview words and the target words. The experiment adopted a single factor 3-level design with three previewing conditions: identical preview, part-of-speech non-violation preview and part-of-speech violation preview. The linear mixed model and Bayesian analysis of the experimental data showed that there was no significant difference on fixation durations and fixation probability of the target words under the condition of part-of-speech violation and part-of-speech non-violation suggesting no preview effect of part-of-speech information. The results tended to support the sequential attention shift model, and the future development of eye movement control model should pay more attention to flexibility and universality of the model.