No wrap-up effect in Chinese reading: Evidence from eye movements.

Research conducted on alphabetic languages has yielded findings suggesting that readers tend to allocate more time toward processing the final words of a sentence or clause, commonly referred to as the wrap-up effect. Several theoretical accounts of the wrap-up effect advocate causal mechanisms that are supposed to generalize over readers of all languages, yet they are based on a small selection of written languages and writing systems. Whether the wrap-up effect occurs in naturally unspaced, logographic languages such as Chinese remains unclear.