The impact of uninformative parafoveal masks on L1 and late L2 speakers.
| Autor: | Fernandez LB; Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany., Scheepers C; University of Glasgow, UK., Allen SEM; Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of eye movement research [J Eye Mov Res] 2020 Aug 26; Vol. 13 (6). Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 26. |
| DOI: | 10.16910/jemr.13.6.3 |
| Abstrakt: | Much reading research has found that informative parafoveal masks lead to a reading benefit for native speakers (see 1). However, little reading research has tested the impact of uninformative parafoveal masks during reading. Additionally, parafoveal processing research is primarily restricted to native speakers. In the current study we manipulated the type of uninformative preview using a gaze contingent boundary paradigm with a group of L1 English speakers and a group of late L2 English speakers (L1 German). We were interested in how different types of uninformative masks impact on parafoveal processing, whether L1 and L2 speakers are similarly impacted, and whether they are sensitive to parafoveally viewed language-specific sub-lexical orthographic information. We manipulated six types of uninformative masks to test these objectives: an Identical, English pseudo-word, German pseudo-word, illegal string of letters, series of X's, and a blank mask. We found that X masks affect reading the most with slight graded differences across the other masks, L1 and L2 speakers are impacted similarly, and neither group is sensitive to sub-lexical orthographic information. Overall these data show that not all previews are equal, and research should be aware of the way uninformative masks affect reading behavior. Additionally, we hope that future research starts to approach models of eye-movement behavior during reading from not only a monolingual but also from a multilingual perspective. Competing Interests: The author(s) declare(s) that the contents of the article are in agreement with the ethics described in http://biblio.unibe.ch/portale/elibrary/BOP/jemr/ethics.html and that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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