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¹Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06424, USA. bjuhasz@wesleyan.edu

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This study investigated parafoveal preview effects on English compound words. Spaced compounds showed a larger preview effect than expected, driven by syntactic predictability rather than linguistic unit size.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Human Vision

Background:

Parafoveal preview, information processed outside the current fixation, influences reading.
Compound words, like 'basketball', present unique challenges for parafoveal processing compared to spaced words.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine parafoveal preview effects within and between English compound words.
To determine if spaced compounds create a larger linguistic unit influencing preview benefits.
To investigate the role of syntactic predictability in parafoveal preview effects.

Main Methods:

Two eye movement experiments using the boundary paradigm.
Presented unspaced and spaced English compound words with correct or partial parafoveal previews.
Compared preview effects between item types and with nonlexicalized adjective-noun pairs.

Main Results:

Parafoveal preview had a larger effect on unspaced than spaced compounds.
Preview effects on spaced compounds were larger than predicted by prior research.
No interaction between item type and preview effect when comparing spaced compounds to adjective-noun pairs.

Conclusions:

The enhanced parafoveal preview effect in spaced compounds is likely driven by the syntactic predictability of the upcoming noun.
Spaced compounds do not necessarily form a larger linguistic unit that explains the observed preview benefit.
Syntactic factors play a crucial role in how parafoveal information aids word recognition.