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Eye movement patterns in natural reading: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual reading of a novel

Uschi Cop (UGent) , Denis Drieghe and Wouter Duyck (UGent)
(2015) PLOS ONE. 10(8).
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This paper presents a corpus of sentence level eye movement parameters for unbalanced bilingual first language (L1) and second-language (L2) reading and monolingual reading of a complete novel (56 000 words). We present important sentence-level basic eye movement parameters of both bilingual and monolingual natural reading extracted from this large data corpus. Bilingual L2 reading patterns show longer sentence reading times (20%), more fixations (21%), shorter saccades (12%) and less word skipping (4.6%), than L1 reading patterns. Regression rates are the same for L1 and L2 reading. These results could indicate, analogous to a previous simulation with the E-Z reader model in the literature, that it is primarily the speeding up of lexical access that drives both L1 and L2 reading development. Bilingual L1 reading does not differ in any major way from monolingual reading. This contrasts with predictions made by the weaker links account, which predicts a bilingual disadvantage in language processing caused by divided exposure between languages.
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SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUALS, EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, LANGUAGE LEXICAL ACTIVATION, VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION, E-Z-READER, SENTENCE CONTEXT, INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES, WORKING-MEMORY, MODEL, FREQUENCY

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Cop, Uschi, et al. “Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.” PLOS ONE, vol. 10, no. 8, 2015, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134008.
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Cop, U., Drieghe, D., & Duyck, W. (2015). Eye movement patterns in natural reading: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual reading of a novel. PLOS ONE, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134008
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Cop, Uschi, Denis Drieghe, and Wouter Duyck. 2015. “Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.” PLOS ONE 10 (8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134008.
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Cop, Uschi, Denis Drieghe, and Wouter Duyck. 2015. “Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.” PLOS ONE 10 (8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134008.
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Cop U, Drieghe D, Duyck W. Eye movement patterns in natural reading: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual reading of a novel. PLOS ONE. 2015;10(8).
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U. Cop, D. Drieghe, and W. Duyck, “Eye movement patterns in natural reading: a comparison of monolingual and bilingual reading of a novel,” PLOS ONE, vol. 10, no. 8, 2015.
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Bilingual L2 reading patterns show longer sentence reading times (20%), more fixations (21%), shorter saccades (12%) and less word skipping (4.6%), than L1 reading patterns. Regression rates are the same for L1 and L2 reading. These results could indicate, analogous to a previous simulation with the E-Z reader model in the literature, that it is primarily the speeding up of lexical access that drives both L1 and L2 reading development.
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