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Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.

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Introduction and method

This paper presents a corpus of sentence level eye movement parameters for unbalanced bilingual first language (L1) and second-language (L2) reading and monolingual reading of a complete novel (56 000 words). We present important sentence-level basic eye movement parameters of both bilingual and monolingual natural reading extracted from this large data corpus.

Results and conclusion

Bilingual L2 reading patterns show longer sentence reading times (20%), more fixations (21%), shorter saccades (12%) and less word skipping (4.6%), than L1 reading patterns. Regression rates are the same for L1 and L2 reading. These results could indicate, analogous to a previous simulation with the E-Z reader model in the literature, that it is primarily the speeding up of lexical access that drives both L1 and L2 reading development. Bilingual L1 reading does not differ in any major way from monolingual reading. This contrasts with predictions made by the weaker links account, which predicts a bilingual disadvantage in language processing caused by divided exposure between languages.

SUBMITTER: Cop U

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4545791 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.

Cop Uschi U Drieghe Denis D Duyck Wouter W

PloS one 20150819 8

<h4>Introduction and method</h4>This paper presents a corpus of sentence level eye movement parameters for unbalanced bilingual first language (L1) and second-language (L2) reading and monolingual reading of a complete novel (56 000 words). We present important sentence-level basic eye movement parameters of both bilingual and monolingual natural reading extracted from this large data corpus.<h4>Results and conclusion</h4>Bilingual L2 reading patterns show longer sentence reading times (20%), mo ...[more]

PMID: 26287379

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Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.

Introduction and method

Results and conclusion

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Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.

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