Eye movement control in Turkish sentence reading.

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2020-10-21

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Özkan, Ayşegül
Beken Fikri, Figen
Kırkıcı, Bilal
Kliegl, Reinhold
Acartürk, Cengiz

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Reading requires the assembly of cognitive processes across a wide spectrum from low-level visual perception to high-level discourse comprehension. One approach of unravelling the dynamics associated with these processes is to determine how eye movements are influenced by the characteristics of the text, in particular which features of the words within the perceptual span maximise the information intake due to foveal, spillover, parafoveal, and predictive processing. One way to test the generalisability of current proposals of such distributed processing is to examine them across different languages. For Turkish, an agglutinative language with a shallow orthography–phonology mapping, we replicate the well-known canonical main effects of frequency and predictability of the fixated word as well as effects of incoming saccade amplitude and fixation location within the word on single-fixation durations with data from 35 adults reading 120 nine-word sentences. Evidence for previously reported effects of the characteristics of neighbouring words and interactions was mixed. There was no evidence for the expected Turkish-specific morphological effect of the number of inflectional suffixes on single-fixation durations. To control for word-selection bias associated with single-fixation durations, we also tested effects on word skipping, single-fixation, and multiple-fixation cases with a base-line category logit model, assuming an increase of difficulty for an increase in the number of fixations. With this model, significant effects of word characteristics and number of inflectional suffixes of foveal word on probabilities of the number of fixations were observed, while the effects of the characteristics of neighbouring words and interactions were mixed.

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Physiology (medical), Physiology, General Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, General Medicine, Eye movements, reading, Turkish

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88656

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Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)

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https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820963310

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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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A. Özkan, F. Beken Fikri, B. Kırkıcı, R. Kliegl, and C. Acartürk, “Eye movement control in Turkish sentence reading.,” Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88656.