Reading aloud, eye movements and prosody. Integration of syntactic and discursive information

Authors

  • Isabel Falé Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa / Universidade Aberta
  • Armanda Costa Universidade Aberta / Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Paula Luegi Universidade Aberta / Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a16

Keywords:

Reading comprehension, eye movements, prosody, text complexity, syntactic and discursive structure

Abstract

This study aims to connect data from ocular movements and reading aloud to the syntactic and discursive properties of texts, in order to understand integrative cognitive processes during reading for understanding. Assuming that in reading aloud there is a close interaction between syntax structure and speech prosody, we collected eyetracking and speech production data from 17 female EP speakers during the reading of two texts. Eye movements and reading speech produced simultaneously were analyzed and our results show that the eyes and the voice are both responsive to text complexity and to syntactic and discursive selected loci, as key points of information integration.

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Published

2016-10-01

How to Cite

Falé, I., Costa, A., & Paula Luegi. (2016). Reading aloud, eye movements and prosody. Integration of syntactic and discursive information. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (1), 367–366. https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln1ano2016a16

Issue

No. 1 (2016): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

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