Université de Fribourg

The modulation of reading strategies by language opacity in early bilinguals: an eye movement study

De León Rodríguez, Diego ; Buetler, C,, Karin A. ; Eggenberger, Noëmi ; Preisig, Basil C. ; Schumacher, Rahel ; Laganaro, Marina ; Nyffeler, Thomas ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Müri, René M.

In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 567–577

Converging evidences from eye movement experiments indicate that linguistic contexts influence reading strategies. However, the question of whether different linguistic contexts modulate eye movements during reading in the same bilingual individuals remains unresolved. We examined reading strategies in a transparent (German) and an opaque (French) language of early, highly proficient...