Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO).

ABSTRACT: Scientific studies of language behavior need to grapple with a large diversity of languages in the world and, for reading, a further variability in writing systems. Yet, the ability to form meaningful theories of reading is contingent on the availability of cross-linguistic behavioral data. This paper offers new insights into aspects of reading behavior that are shared and those that vary systematically across languages through an investigation of eye-tracking data from 13 languages recorded during text reading. We begin with reporting a bibliometric analysis of eye-tracking studies showing that the current empirical base is insufficient for cross-linguistic comparisons. We respond to this empirical lacuna by presenting the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO), the product of an interna

SUBMITTER: Siegelman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8809631 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature