When function words carry content.
Studies on eye movements during reading have primarily focussed on the processing of content words (CWs), such as verbs and nouns. Those few studies that have analysed eye movements on function words (FWs), such as articles and prepositions, have reported that FWs are typically skipped more often an...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 78; no. 10; pp. 2235 - 2249 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=187948591&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 187948591 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17470218 1US5 jtl: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology issn: 17470218 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 78 iid: 10 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. artinfo: ui: 187948591 10.1177/17470218241307582 ppf: 2235 ppct: 14 formats: tig: atl: When function words carry content. aug: au: Vieira, João Teixeira, Elisângela Rodrigues, Erica Godwin, Hayward J Drieghe, Denis affil: School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil Departamento de Letras, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil su: Lexicology Reading Eye movements Portuguese language Word frequency Cognitive psychology sug: subj: Lexicology Reading Eye movements Portuguese language Word frequency Cognitive psychology keyword: Brazilian Portuguese content words corpus study function words Brazilian Portuguese content words corpus study function words ab: Studies on eye movements during reading have primarily focussed on the processing of content words (CWs), such as verbs and nouns. Those few studies that have analysed eye movements on function words (FWs), such as articles and prepositions, have reported that FWs are typically skipped more often and, when fixated, receive fewer and shorter fixations than CWs. However, those studies were often conducted in languages where FWs contain comparatively little information (e.g., the in English). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), FWs can carry gender and number marking. In the present study, we analysed data from the RASTROS corpus of natural reading in BP and examined the effects of word length, predictability, frequency and word class on eye movements. Very limited differences between FWs and CWs were observed mostly restricted to the skipping rates of short words, such that FWs were skipped more often than CWs. For fixation times, differences were either nonexistent or restricted to atypical FWs, such as low frequency FWs, warranting further research. As such, our results are more compatible with studies showing limited or no differences in processing speed between FWs and CWs when influences of word length, frequency and predictability are taken into account. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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