期刊
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
卷 54, 期 6, 页码 2843-2863出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01772-6
关键词
Reading; Eye tracking; Cross-linguistic research; Language
资金
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnered Research Training Grant [895-2016-1008]
- Canada Research Chair
- CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund
- Ghent University [BOF13/GOA/032]
- Estonian Research Council Mobilitas Pluss postdoctoral researcher grant [MOBJD408]
- ERC Advanced grant [692502-L2STAT]
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF) [48/20]
- Saint Petersburg State University [75288744, 121050600033-7]
- FWO Project
This paper presents a study on eye-tracking data of reading behaviors in 13 languages, revealing differences in skipping rates and stable behaviors across different languages. The findings have important implications for theories of reading.
Scientific studies of language behavior need to grapple with a large diversity of languages in the world and, for reading, a further variability in writing systems. Yet, the ability to form meaningful theories of reading is contingent on the availability of cross-linguistic behavioral data. This paper offers new insights into aspects of reading behavior that are shared and those that vary systematically across languages through an investigation of eye-tracking data from 13 languages recorded during text reading. We begin with reporting a bibliometric analysis of eye-tracking studies showing that the current empirical base is insufficient for cross-linguistic comparisons. We respond to this empirical lacuna by presenting the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO), the product of an international multi-lab collaboration. We examine which behavioral indices differentiate between reading in written languages, and which measures are stable across languages. One of the findings is that readers of different languages vary considerably in their skipping rate (i.e., the likelihood of not fixating on a word even once) and that this variability is explained by cross-linguistic differences in word length distributions. In contrast, if readers do not skip a word, they tend to spend a similar average time viewing it. We outline the implications of these findings for theories of reading. We also describe prospective uses of the publicly available MECO data, and its further development plans.
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