Chapter 4 - Skilled Reading

Summary

reviews what has been learned about the skilled reading of Chinese from experiments that have used eye-tracking methods. The chapter opens with a review of eye-tracking methods and how they have been used to study the reading of English and other languages that use alphabetic writing systems. This review is then used to organize a discussion of what has been learned about the reading of Chinese using the same methods. The chapter also reviews those computer models that have been developed to explain the perceptual and cognitive processes that support the reading of Chinese, and that simulate the patterns of eye movements observed during the reading of Chinese.