{"pk":49390,"title":"Orthographic Complexity Moderates Eye Movements While Reading in Hindi, Along with Length & Frequency","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Past research on eye-movements during reading and\ncomprehension has primarily focused on alphabetic scripts,\nsuch as the Roman script used to write European languages like\nEnglish, Dutch, German, and Spanish, where classical\nmeasures like word length can be easily calculated by counting\ncharacters. However, this approach may not generalize to\nalphasyllabic languages like Hindi and other Indian languages\nwritten using the Devanagari script, where many characters\ndepend on diacritic markers for proper pronunciation. This\nposes challenges in studying these languages in eye-tracking\nresearch, discourages eye-tracking studies with these\nlanguages. To address this gap, we asked 61 native Hindi\nspeakers (L1) read Hindi text, while their eye-movements were\nbeing tracked. Results revealed that a complexity metric for the\nscript predicts variables such as first fixation duration, gaze\nduration, single fixation duration, total reading time, and\nnumber of fixations. These results were also correlated with\nvariables such as word frequency (van Heuven et al., 2014) for\nall eye-tracking measures.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Reading; Eye tracking"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wp280v3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sidak","middle_name":"Singh","last_name":"Kalra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur","department":""},{"first_name":"Niket","middle_name":"","last_name":"Agrawal","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Ark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Verma","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49390/galley/37352/download/"}]}