Influence of Syntactic Information on Eye Movement Control in Reading Z Ilkin |
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Istanbul, Turkey
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| We will examine to what extend syntactic prediction could influence eye movement behaviour in reading. We will report there experiments where the morphology of the upcoming word was predicted from previous sentence context. First two experiments were in English and we tested whether the use sentence initial information (indicating an upcoming plural noun) would influence parafoveal processing of that noun (e.g. these/this fascinating toy/toys). We found that the readers more likely to skip the noun if its morphological information was predicted. Indicating that the reader process morphological information parafoveally and these syntactic expectations influenced the control of saccade movements. We also examined parafoveal processing of morphological information in Turkish where the morphology of the upcoming word was predicted from previous sentence context. In Turkish negation is marked with a specific morpheme at the verb. By manipulating sentence initial information we created an expectation for a negative verb. If the readers are more likely to access morphological information from the parafovea when this information is predicted, then the skipping rates should be higher. We will discuss the implications of these results for lexical access in reading models. |
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