Role of expectation and memory constraints in Hindi comprehension: An eyetracking corpus analysis
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We have used the Potsdam-Allahabad Hindi Eye-tracking Corpus that contains eyemovement data from 30 participants on 153 sentences to investigate the effect of surprisal and retrieval on reading time, while controlling for word-level predictors (word complexity, syllable length, unigram and bigram frequency) and integration and storage costs. We find that surprisal has a significant coefficient in only in First Pass Reading Time while storage cost shows up only in Total Fixation Time, thus indicating that the two measures of predictability capture different cognitive variables.
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