Beyond single syllables: The effect of first syllable frequency and orthographic similarity on eye movements during silent reading

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1134-1153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hawelka ◽  
Sarah Schuster ◽  
Benjamin Gagl ◽  
Florian Hutzler
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Syllable Frequency ◽  
Orthographic Similarity

Eye movement programming and reading accuracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht W Inhoff ◽  
Julie Gregg ◽  
Ralph Radach
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Linguistic Information ◽  
Reading Accuracy ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Oculomotor Responses

Eye movements were measured during the silent reading of sentences to extract several oculomotor measures. Rather than each measure being examined independently, oculomotor responses were grouped into two types, the assumption being that the grouping would project onto underlying constructs. Properties of forward-directed movements were assumed to reflect the success with which linguistic information was acquired (acquisition), and corrective responses were assumed to reveal readers’ responding to difficulties (correction). These two types of oculomotor responses were linked to indexes of reading accuracy (accuracy), which were obtained from separate materials so that eye movements with one set of materials could be used to predict reading accuracy for another set of materials. Path analyses indicated that correction, but not acquisition, was linked to accuracy. The additional clustering of acquisition, correction, and accuracy scores identified a group of readers with relatively low accuracy scores. These readers were typical in their acquisition of linguistic information but under-used corrective responding.

scholarly journals Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Beck ◽  
Lars Konieczny
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Poetry Reading ◽  
High Degree

The present study investigates effects of conventionally metered and rhymed poetry on eye-movements in silent reading. Readers saw MRRL poems (i.e., metrically regular, rhymed language) in two layouts. In poem layout, verse endings coincided with line breaks. In prose layout verse endings could be mid-line. We also added metrical and rhyme anomalies. We hypothesized that silently reading MRRL results in building up auditive expectations that are based on a rhythmic “audible gestalt” and propose that rhythmicity is generated through subvocalization. Our results revealed that readers were sensitive to rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies but showed differential effects in poem and prose layouts. Metrical anomalies in particular resulted in robust reading disruptions across a variety of eye-movement measures in the poem layout and caused re-reading of the local context. Rhyme anomalies elicited stronger effects in prose layout and resulted in systematic re-reading of pre-rhymes. The presence or absence of rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies, as well as the layout manipulation, also affected reading in general. Effects of syllable number indicated a high degree of subvocalization. The overall pattern of results suggests that eye-movements reflect, and are closely aligned with, the rhythmic subvocalization of MRRL. This study introduces a two-stage approach to the analysis of long MRRL stimuli and contributes to the discussion of how the processing of rhythm in music and speech may overlap.

Effects of text segmentation on silent reading of Chinese regulated poems: Evidence from Eye Movements

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Qingrong ◽  
Gu Wentao* ◽  
Christoph Scheepers
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Text Segmentation

Eye Movements of Stuttering and Nonstuttering Children during Silent Reading

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Brutten ◽  
K. Bakker ◽  
P. Janssen ◽  
S. Van Der Meulen
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Eye Fixations ◽  
Reading Errors ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Computer Controlled

During the silent reading of a 320-word passage, the eye movements of 22 grade school stutterers and 22 nonstutterers were recorded by means of a computer-controlled eye-marker. The recordings were made as a means of determining if the eye movements of the two groups differed and if the differences suggested that the young stutterers showed evidence of word-specific expectancy. Frame-by-frame analysis of the recordings revealed that the stuttering children displayed significantly more eye fixations and eye regressions than the nonstuttering children. The correlations among the different types of eye measures also varied between the subject groups. The differences observed were present despite the fact that the reading level of the two groups was age appropriate and the subjects sampled did not differ significantly in either reading errors or comprehension. These findings are like those previously found when stuttering and nonstuttering adults were similarly tested. They imply that expectancy is not the response province of older stutterers.

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