Switching between reading tasks leads to phase-transitions in reading times in L1 and L2 readers.

ABSTRACT: Reading research uses different tasks to investigate different levels of the reading process, such as word recognition, syntactic parsing, or semantic integration. It seems to be tacitly assumed that the underlying cognitive process that constitute reading are stable across those tasks. However, nothing is known about what happens when readers switch from one reading task to another. The stability assumptions of the reading process suggest that the cognitive system resolves this switching between two tasks quickly. Here, we present an alternative language-game hypothesis (LGH) of reading that begins by treating reading as a softly-assembled process and that assumes, instead of stability, context-sensitive flexibility of the reading process. LGH predicts that switching between two reading t

SUBMITTER: Wallot S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6363172 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature