The impact of nominalisations on the reading process: A case-study using the Freiburg Legalese Reading Corpus
- The author presents a study using eye-tracking-while-reading data from participants reading German jurisdictional texts. I am particularly interested in nominalisations. It can be shown that nominalisations are read significantly longer than other nouns and that this effect is quite strong. Furthermore, the results suggest that nouns are read faster in reformulated texts. In the reformulations, nominalisations were transformed into verbal structures. Reformulations did not lead to increased processing times of verbal constructions but reformulated texts were read faster overall. Where appropriate, results are compared to a previous study of Hansen et al. (2006) using the same texts but other methodology and statistical analysis.
Author: | Sascha WolferORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-56479 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17169/langsci.b108.230 |
ISBN: | 978-3-944675-98-5 (Digital) |
ISBN: | 978-3-946234-65-4 (Hardcover) |
ISBN: | 978-3-946234-69-2(Softcover) |
Parent Title (English): | Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics |
Series (Serial Number): | Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing (2) |
Publisher: | Language Science Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Editor: | Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Sambor Grucza |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2016/11/30 |
Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
Tag: | eyetracking |
GND Keyword: | Kognitive Linguistik; Lesen; Nominalisierung; Sprachstatistik; Sprachverarbeitung |
First Page: | 163 |
Last Page: | 185 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Psycholinguistik / Kognitive Linguistik |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschland |