Two experiments using a lexical priming paradigm investigated how stress information is processed in reading Italian words. In both experiments, prime and target words either shared the stress pattern or they had different stress patterns. We expected that lexical activation of the prime would favour the assignment of congruent stress to the…

Contradictory results have been found in Chinese as to whether subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. One major disagreement concerns the region where the difficulty arises. In this study, a "maze" task was used to localise processing difficulty by requiring participants to make a choice between two…

Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate how this variation and the role of encoding processes should influence memory performance. Here, memory retrieval in language comprehension is shown to be influenced by…

Two experiments combined a spatial cueing manipulation (valid vs. invalid spatial cues) with a stimulus repetition manipulation (repeated vs. nonrepeated) in order to assess the hypothesis that familiar items need less spatial attention than less familiar ones. The magnitude of the effect of cueing on reading aloud time for items that were…

The linguistic properties of the first (critical) character of a two-character Chinese word were manipulated when the eyes moved to the right of the critical character during reading to determine whether character processing is strictly unidirectional. In Experiment 1, the critical character was replaced with a congruent or incongruent character…

Two eye-tracking experiments and two self-paced reading experiments investigated processing of sentences containing reduced relative clauses. Processing of a reduced relative is facilitated when it is preceded by a sentence that has the same syntactic structure, as long as the preceding sentence contains the same critical verb as the target…

Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research on English relative clauses shows that ORs take longer to read (King & Just, 1991) and elicit anterior negativity between fillers and gaps (King & Kutas, 1995), which is…

Two experiments compared how relatively long novel prefixed words (e.g., "overfarm") and existing prefixed words were processed in reading. The use of novel prefixed words allows one to examine the roles of whole-word access and decompositional processing in the processing of non-novel prefixed words. The two experiments found that,…

In four experiments, Japanese readers were required to switch between reading words in Kanji and Kana. In every case, performance was significantly slower and less accurate on the trials following a change of script. (Author/VWL)

Investigated the use of orthographic and phonologic information in reading Chinese text using an eye-monitoring technique. Results support the position that it is orthography rather than phonology that plays an early and dominant role in reading Chinese. (Author/VWL)

Three primed naming experiments were conducted to investigate development of sublexical processing in reading Chinese. Target characters were either homophonic to or semantically related to phonetic radicals embedded in irregular complex characters, but not to the complex characters themselves. (Author/VWL)

Investigated the nature of orthographic representations accessed during reading, as well as the relationship between reading and spelling representations using additional evidence to that based on normal reading and spelling performance. (Author/VWL)

Investigated the interaction between morphological, orthographic, and phonological information in reading Chinese compound words in five sets of experiments, using both masked priming and visual-visual priming lexical decision tasks. (Author/VWL)

A series of reading-time studies was conducted to examine the processing of co-reference in Chinese discourse. These studies were conducted to test the generality of studies of English that have shown that reduced referential expressions contribute more to discourse coherence than do unreduced expressions. (Author/VWL)

Proposes that writers must form accurate representations of how their readers will interpret their texts to convey their ideas successfully. Two experiments demonstrated that writers who received feedback from their readers were better able to form representations in subsequent works than were writers who did not receive feedback. (18 References)…