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The Eyes Are the Windows to the Thoughts.
2022.12.07 Dr. HSU Yu Yin
Assistant Professor
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Eyes Are the Windows to the Thoughts.
In this talk, I present an eye-tracking study on adult native speakers’ language comprehension during natural text reading. This study employed a novel – the Little Prince – arranged with two different reading paradigms. Two experiments were involved: in Mandarin (simplified Chinese) and Cantonese (traditional Chinese) versions, 30 participants of each language group, who were college students, were invited to participate in this study. While reading the novel, participants had to actively engage in a comprehension activity over two types of tasks: a normal reading paradigm, and a task-specific paradigm. Both tasks were evaluated by specific comprehension questions related to the contents. The sentences were presented to the participants in a quasi-naturalistic reading scenario, in which 4 to 5 sentences were shown on each page, and each participant read sentences at their own pace. In the presentation, I will summarize the characteristics of two eye-tracking datasets, the results of the study, and how the datasets may be useful for other linguistic modelling tasks.
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