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When experience meets language statistics: Individual variability in processing English compound words.

Kaitlin Falkauskas¹, Victor Kuperman¹

¹Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University.

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|June 16, 2015

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Reading experience influences how readers process language patterns. Greater exposure to print enhances the exploitation of spelling biases in compound words, affecting reading behavior.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Reading Science

Background:

Statistical language patterns impact comprehension and production.
Proficient readers are less swayed by linguistic biases than less proficient ones.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate if varied exposure to language patterns causes individual differences in reading behavior.
Test if a written-language-specific probabilistic bias affects readers with more print exposure.

Main Methods:

Eye-movement tracking to measure reading behavior.
Presented readers with sentences containing English compound words with variable spelling probabilities (concatenated vs. spaced).
Employed linear mixed-effects regression models to analyze eye-movement data.

Main Results:

Probabilistic spelling bias facilitated reading more for frequent compounds and those in larger families.
Readers with higher exposure-to-print scores showed stronger effects of the bias.
Exploitation of spelling patterns depends on their entrenchment in the mental lexicon via print exposure.

Conclusions:

Reading experience significantly modulates the influence of statistical language patterns.
Individual differences in reading are linked to how deeply spelling patterns are learned through print exposure.
Future research must consider individual experience when studying language structure and use.