Effects of individual differences in text exposure on sentence comprehension

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作者
Stoops, Anastasia [1 ]
Montag, Jessica L. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Psychol, Champaign, IL 61821 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
ADULT NATIVE SPEAKERS; LEXICALLY-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; OBJECT RELATIVE CLAUSES; WORKING-MEMORY; LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCE; LANGUAGE-ACQUISITION; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; CAPACITY THEORY; PRINT EXPOSURE; CONSTRAINTS;
D O I
10.1038/s41598-023-43801-8
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Linguistic experience plays a clear role in accounting for variability in sentence comprehension behavior across individuals and across sentence types. We aimed to understand how individual differences in reading experience predict reading behavior. Corpus analyses revealed the frequencies with which our experimental items appeared in written and spoken language. We hypothesized that reading experience should affect sentence comprehension most substantially for sentence types that individuals primarily encounter through written language. Readers with more text exposure were faster and more accurate readers overall, but they read sentence types biased to written language particularly faster than did readers with less text exposure. We see clear effects of text exposure on sentence comprehension in ways that allow explicit links between written and spoken corpus statistics and behavior. We discuss theoretical implications of effects of text exposure for experience-based approaches to sentence processing.
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