THE ROLE OF THEMATIC AND SEMANTIC INFORMATION IN READING CHINESE
中文阅读中主题与语意信息在句子加工中的作用

Researchers differ in their views on whether thematic and semantic information can possibly, affectinitial sentence processing. Three experiments were designed to explore this issue using a speciallydesigned moving-window technique. Experiment 1 demonstrated that when the background informationwas not obvious enough, no thematic effect was detected. In Experiment 2, when additional backgroundinformation was provided, the thematic effect was observed. Experiment 3 showed evidence thatsemantic information affected initial sentence processing.