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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation tDCS of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word Acquisition

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation tDCS of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word Acquisition

Published on: July 13, 2019

When function words carry content.

João Vieira¹, Elisângela Teixeira², Erica Rodrigues³

¹School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

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Eye movement studies reveal minimal differences in processing content words (CWs) and function words (FWs) during Brazilian Portuguese reading. Factors like word length and predictability largely explain observed variations in skipping and fixation times.

Keywords:

Brazilian Portuguese Eye movements content words corpus study function words

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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation tDCS of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word Acquisition

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation tDCS of Wernicke's and Broca's Areas in Studies of Language Learning and Word Acquisition

Published on: July 13, 2019

Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics

Background:

Previous research on reading eye movements predominantly focused on content words (CWs).
Studies on function words (FWs) suggested they are skipped more often and receive shorter fixations than CWs.
These findings may be language-specific, as FWs in languages like English carry less grammatical information than in Brazilian Portuguese (BP).

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate eye movement differences between FWs and CWs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP).
To examine the influence of word length, predictability, frequency, and word class on reading eye movements in BP.
To determine if BP FWs, which carry grammatical information, are processed differently from CWs.

Main Methods:

Analysis of eye movement data from the RASTROS corpus of natural reading in Brazilian Portuguese.
Examination of factors including word length, predictability, frequency, and word class.
Comparison of fixation durations and skipping rates for FWs versus CWs.

Main Results:

Very limited differences were found between FWs and CWs.
FWs were skipped more often than CWs, primarily when they were short words.
Fixation time differences were negligible, except for atypical cases like low-frequency FWs.

Conclusions:

The processing of FWs and CWs in Brazilian Portuguese shows minimal divergence when controlling for word properties.
Observed differences in skipping rates are largely attributable to word length.
Results support models showing limited processing speed differences between word types when word length, frequency, and predictability are accounted for.