In two eye-tracking studies we investigated whether readers can detect a violation of the phonological-grammatical convention for the indefinite article an to be followed by a word beginning with a vowel when these two words appear in the parafovea. Across two experiments participants read sentences in which the word an was followed by a parafoveal preview that was either correct (e.g. Icelandic), incorrect and represented a phonological violation (e.g. Mongolian), or incorrect without representing a phonological violation (e.g. Ethiopian), with this parafoveal preview changing to the target word as participants made a saccade into the space preceding an. Our data suggests that participants detected the phonological violation while the target word was still two words to the right of fixation, with participants making more regressions from the previewed word and having longer go-past times on this word when they received a violation preview as opposed to a non-violation preview. We argue that participants were attempting to perform aspects of sentence integration on the basis of low-level orthographic information from the previewed word.

二眼动跟踪研究中，我们调查的读者是否可以检测违反了语音，语法惯例，为不定冠词的所应遵循以元音开头，当这两个词出现在parafovea一个字。在两个实验中，参与者阅读的句子中，单词an后面跟随着副凹前预览，该预览是正确的（例如，冰岛语），不正确且表示语音违规（例如，蒙古语），或者不正确而没有表示语音违规（例如，埃塞俄比亚语），当参与者将视线移到前一个空间时，这个副凹预览变成了目标词。我们的数据表明，参与者在目标词仍是注视点右侧的两个词时检测到语音违规，参与者在收到违例预览时相对于预览词进行了更多的回归，并且对该词的停留时间更长到非违规预览。我们认为，参与者正在尝试根据预览单词的低级正交信息来执行句子集成的各个方面。