Reading in Agglutinating Languages: The Role of Morphology on Eye Movements

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2015-08-21

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Deniz, Ozan
Fal, Mehmetcan
Bozkurt, Ufuk
Acartürk, Cengiz

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The agglutinative morphology of Turkic languages (e.g., Turkish, Uyghur) provides an appropriate basis to study the role of complex morphological structures on eye-movement patterns in reading. We examined the influence of morphological complexity on a set of eye-movement parameters while controlling linguistic parameters, such as word length, word frequency and initial letter-bigram frequencies of a set of target words. Three sevenletter, target-word conditions (root, single-suffixed, double-suffixed) were designed while controlling the frequency of the target words, the initial letter-bigrams of the target words, as well as the sentence frame prior to and one-word posterior to the target words. The experiment with 45 Turkish native speakers revealed significant relationships among LS (Launch Site) on the pre-target word n-1, FLP (Fixation Landing Position) on the target word n, Launch Site (LS) on n, and FLP on the post-target word n+1. As for the first fixation durations (FFD) on the target word, both launch site (X2(1) = 12.22, p<0.001) and morphological structure (X2(1)= 5.32, p=0.02) had a significant influence on FFD. In particular, morphologically complex target words resulted in multiple fixations on the first-pass reading of n, which also led to shorter FFD on n.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71058

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18th European Conference on Eye Movements (2015)

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O. Deniz, M. Fal, U. Bozkurt, and C. Acartürk, “Reading in Agglutinating Languages: The Role of Morphology on Eye Movements,” Viyana, Avusturya, 2015, p. 112, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.google.com.tr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjjtdS51KHKAhVBiCwKHYcaCTYQFggsMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecem2015.univie.ac.at%2Ffileadmin%2Fuser_upload%2Fk_ecem2015%2Fproceedings%2FECEM2015_Abstracts_150722.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEY8yOdBykl6mAJI2YQoTV3SrSnTg.