Weit, Jurjen van der (2022) The effects of prepositional 'er' on reading speed in Dutch, an eye tracking experiment. Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.
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Abstract
This paper studies the effect of the prepositional function of the Dutch word `er' on reading speed. This was done by conducting a Dutch self paced reading experiment using eye tracking. The effect was tested by showing participants sentences with prepositional `er' and a baseline version where `er' was replaced by the subject it referred to and comparing the reading times of the preposition including a spillover region. From previous research we expect that prepositional `er' will behave much like a Long Distance Dependency and therefore increase the time needed to read the preposition. The findings of this paper show that there is indeed a significant slowdown in reading speed at the preposition when the prepositional `er' is present in the sentence versus when it is not.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Jones, S.M. |
| Degree programme: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2022 12:43 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2022 12:43 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/27432 |
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