Global measures of syntactic and lexical complexity are not strong predictors of eye-movement patterns in sentence and passage reading

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Global measures of syntactic and lexical complexity are not strong predictors of eye-movement patterns in sentence and passage reading

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The link between the cognitive effort of word processing and the eye-movement patterns elicited by that word is well established in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking. Yet less evidence or consensus exists regarding whether the same link exists between linguistic complexity measures of a sentence or passage and eye movements registered at the sentence or passage level. This article focuses on “global” measures of syntactic and lexical complexity, i.e., the measures that characterise the structure of the sentence or passage rather than aggregate lexical properties of individual words. We selected several commonly used global complexity measures and tested their predictive power against sentence- and passage-level eye movements in samples of text reading from 13 languages represented in the Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO). While some syntactic or lexical complexity measures elicited statistically significant effects, they were negligibly small and not of practical relevance for predicting the processing effort either in individual languages or across languages. These findings suggest that the “eye-mind” link known to be valid at the word level may not scale up to larger linguistic units. © Experimental Psychology Society 2025.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Global measures of syntactic and lexical complexity are not strong predictors of eye-movement patterns in sentence and passage reading

Popis výsledku anglicky

The link between the cognitive effort of word processing and the eye-movement patterns elicited by that word is well established in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking. Yet less evidence or consensus exists regarding whether the same link exists between linguistic complexity measures of a sentence or passage and eye movements registered at the sentence or passage level. This article focuses on “global” measures of syntactic and lexical complexity, i.e., the measures that characterise the structure of the sentence or passage rather than aggregate lexical properties of individual words. We selected several commonly used global complexity measures and tested their predictive power against sentence- and passage-level eye movements in samples of text reading from 13 languages represented in the Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO). While some syntactic or lexical complexity measures elicited statistically significant effects, they were negligibly small and not of practical relevance for predicting the processing effort either in individual languages or across languages. These findings suggest that the “eye-mind” link known to be valid at the word level may not scale up to larger linguistic units. © Experimental Psychology Society 2025.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

ISSN

1747-0218

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2025

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

1675 - 1690

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105000008402