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Study title

Eye movement data from visual world paradigm experiment on anticipation and priming in L2 speakers and attrited L1 speakers of Italian.

Creator

Sorace, A, University of Edinburgh
Bak, T, University of Edinburgh
Keller, F, University of Edinburgh
Filiaci, F, University of Edinburgh
Finlayson, I, University of Edinburgh

Study number / PID

851885 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-851885 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Eye movement data from visual world paradigm experiment on anticipation and priming in L2 speakers and attrited L1 speakers of Italian. Executive function and eye-tracking experiments will be conducted to investigate processing of referential expressions. Conditions of high executive load (when speakers have to switch languages) will be compared to conditions of low load (no language switching required). Speakers’ recovery from inhibition of the unselected language, and how this affects processing, will also be investigated.

The aim of this project is to compare language processing in two groups of adult late bilinguals: (1) native English second language speakers of Italian and German, who acquired these languages after puberty and have achieved high proficiency, and (2) native speakers of Italian and German who are long-term UK residents and are therefore undergoing native language attrition from exposure to English. Recent research suggests that these bilingual groups show similar behavior (both have difficulties with the interface between language and pragmatics, eg processing referential expressions) but there has been no systematic comparison of their online processing. This project will provide such a comparison. The hypothesis is that these difficulties are caused by inefficiency of the executive function mechanisms controlling attention. These mechanisms are taxed in bilinguals, as they constantly have to suppress one language when they speak or hear the other.

Topics

Media, communications and languagePsychology

Keywords

EYETRACKINGVISUAL WORLDBILINGUALS2015

Methodology

Data collection period

01/09/2011 - 28/02/2015

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Eyetracking: participants viewed scenes while hearing sentences. Of interest were the speed of anticipatory eye movements towards the second object named in the sentence. Sentences came in pairs of primes and targets. Two features of the prime sentences were manipulated: (1) whether prime was unmarked or marked; (2) whether prime was in English or Italian. Additionally, participants were either attriters or learners. The target was always an Italian OVS sentence. Therefore for the prime to be SVO or Italian would constitute a switch (either of construction or of language).

Funding information

Grant number

ES/I009590/1

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Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access.

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