Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time

C Shain, C Meister, T Pimentel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

[HTML][HTML] Language models explain word reading times better than empirical predictability

MJ Hofmann, S Remus, C Biemann… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Though there is a strong consensus that word length and frequency are the most important
single-word features determining visual-orthographic access to the mental lexicon, there is …

[HTML][HTML] Can heritage speakers predict lexical and morphosyntactic information in reading?

O Parshina, A Lopukhina, IA Sekerina - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ample evidence suggests that monolingual adults can successfully generate lexical and
morphosyntactic predictions in reading and that correct predictions facilitate sentence …

[HTML][HTML] Predictive Language Processing in Russian Heritage Speakers: Task Effects on Morphosyntactic Prediction in Reading

O Parshina, N Ladinskaya, L Gault, IA Sekerina - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the effect of task demands on the predictive processing of
morphosyntactic cues (word class, noun/adjective gender, case, and number) in reading …

What eye movements can tell us about reading in Russian as a heritage language: From the lab to the classroom

O Parshina, I Dubinina, O Kisselev - Russian as a Heritage …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter provides a review of the existing experimental research on reading abilities of
Russian heritage speakers and outlines pedagogical recommendations for teaching reading …

Prior Context and Individual Alpha Frequency Influence Predictive Processing during Language Comprehension

S Jano, Z Cross, A Chatburn, M Schlesewsky… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
The extent to which the brain predicts upcoming information during language processing
remains controversial. To shed light on this debate, the present study reanalyzed …

Register Variation in the Writing of Heritage Russian Speakers in Israel

A Kostina, EBA Siegal - Russian as a Heritage Language, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
The phenomenon of register variation refers to language varieties that are based on
situational contexts (Biber & Conrad, 2019), and it has been extensively studied in …

[HTML][HTML] The processing of orthography in visual word recognition and its sensitivity to top-down modulation

JE Taylor - 2022 - theses.gla.ac.uk
A vital component of visual word recognition is the decoding of orthography, the rules by
which language is transcribed from and to visual script. Literate humans demonstrate …

Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in spoken language comprehension

P Bhandari - 2022 - publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de
It seems pretty easy to listen to and understand someone speaking. However, our day-to-
day conversations occur under adverse listening conditions. For example, background noise …

[PDF][PDF] Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in spoken language comprehension

P Bhandari - scholar.archive.org
It seems pretty easy to listen to and understand someone speaking. However, our day-to-
day conversations occur under adverse listening conditions. For example, background noise …