Table_1_Follow the eyes: gaze and grammaticality.DOC

This paper studies the role of eye tracking in detecting grammatical violation in reading tasks. It tests the assumption that encountering syntactic violation has its correspondence in the behavioral patterns associated with gazing. Applying the T-pattern analysis offered by the research environment Theme, it is shown that the observation of grammaticality/agrammaticality in samples of experiments is reflected in the partial correlation of these categories across a number of structural patterns. It is however also shown that their expected difference in the total duration of focusing is not confirmed. It is suggested that associating eye tracking with an additional sound recording or with linguistic ERP studies could widen the categorical spectrum of identifying grammatical violations.

本研究探讨眼动追踪（eye tracking）在阅读任务中检测语法违规的作用。本文验证了如下假设：当阅读者遭遇句法违规（syntactic violation）时，其相关的注视行为模式会出现对应表现。借助研究环境Theme所提供的T模式分析（T-pattern analysis），实验结果表明，实验样本中合语法与不合语法语句的观测结果，可通过两类样本在多种结构模式下的偏相关关系得以体现。不过研究同时显示，二者在总注视时长上的预期差异并未得到证实。最后，本研究提出，将眼动追踪与额外的语音录制或语言事件相关电位（event-related potential，ERP）研究相结合，能够拓宽识别语法违规的类别范围。