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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology of Language
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1420223

The Role of Predictive and Preview Effects in Mongolian Reading: Evidence from eye movements

Provisionally accepted
Lu Zhang Lu Zhang 1,2Ri Na Ri Na 2Jingxin Wang Jingxin Wang 1*
  • 1 Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
  • 2 Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

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    The research on contextual predictability in reading has been thoroughly investigated in the context of horizontal text comprehension. However, the performance of contextual predictive effects in Mongolian vertical reading remains unknown. Recently, there has been further research discussing how contextual predictive effects may be influenced by parafoveal processing. Thus, employing a boundary paradigm, we conducted an eye-tracking study aimed at exploring contextual predictability and preview effects in Mongolian reading. Our study found significant main effects of predictability and previewing in terms of temporal indicators, but not in terms of skipping rates, nor did we find an interaction between the two. We speculate that the unique reading orientation and writing features of Mongolian, compared to phonetic scripts read horizontally, diminish the parafoveal processing of preview information, resulting in lower skipping rates in Mongolian reading.

    Keywords: Mongolian, Boundary paradigm, predictive, Preview, Word skipping

    Received: 22 Apr 2024; Accepted: 04 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhang, Na and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jingxin Wang, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China

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