Syntactic co-activation in natural reading
| Autor: | Manon W. Jones, Gemma Fitzsimmons, Awel Vaughan-Evans, Simon Paul Liversedge |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Eye movement Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Linguistics C800 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Reading (process) Eye tracking Natural (music) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Neuroscience of multilingualism Co activation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| ISSN: | 1350-6285 |
| Popis: | Recent evidence suggests that bilingual individuals co-activate the syntactic rules of both languages. However, the extent to which syntactic co-activation occurs during natural reading is currently unknown. Here, we measured the eye movements of Welsh-English bilinguals as they read English sentences. We also tested a control group of English monolinguals. Target words were manipulated to create nonwords that were consistent or inconsistent with the rules of Welsh soft mutation (a morphosyntactic process that alters the initial consonant of words). Nonwords were only visible in parafoveal preview, and a direct fixation triggered the presentation of the normal English word. Linear mixed effects analyses revealed a robust parafoveal preview benefit for identity previews (television) compared with mutated (delevision) and aberrant previews (belevision), and a parafoveal-on-foveal effect in our bilingual, but not our monolingual, sample. Bilingual readers’ sentence reanalysis was affected by the implicit Welsh mutation, but only in contexts that would elicit a mutation in Welsh. Our findings suggest that morphosyntactic rules are co-activated during natural reading, however further investigations are needed to evaluate the robustness of this effect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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