Eye-movement benchmarks in Heritage Language reading

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21697501
AutoresOlga Parshina (0000-0002-6476-4961, The Graduate Center, CUNY, autor de correspondencia), Anna Laurinavichyute (0000-0002-3150-0206, National Research University Higher School of Economics), I A Sekerina (0000-0003-3859-3000, National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Año2021
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas69-82
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s136672892000019x
OpenAlexW3012248038
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas49

This eye-tracking study establishes basic benchmarks of eye movements during reading in heritage language (HL) by Russian-speaking adults and adolescents of high (n = 21) and low proficiency (n = 27). Heritage speakers (HSs) read sentences in Cyrillic, and their eye movements were compared to those of Russian monolingual skilled adult readers, 8-year-old children and L2 learners. Reading patterns of HSs revealed longer mean fixation durations, lower skipping probabilities, and higher regressive saccade rates than in monolingual adults. High-proficient HSs were more similar to monolingual children, while low-proficient HSs performed on par with L2 learners. Low-proficient HSs differed from high-proficient HSs in exhibiting lower skipping probabilities, higher fixation counts, and larger frequency effects. Taken together, our findings are consistent with the weaker links account of bilingual language processing as well as the divergent attainment theory of HL

Eye movement · Eye tracking · Heritage language · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Saccade · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence