Measuring Peninsular Spanish discourse relationships with eye tracking. Limits between paraphrase and reformulation based on eye movements
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Keywords

Peninsular Spanish
reformulation
discourse marker
experimental pragmatics
eye tracking

Abstract

This paper presents quantitative and qualitative analyses to answer the question how reformulation and other similar categories can be delimited (form-function tramp; Pons 2017). Specifically, our data focus on the relationship between paraphrase and reformulation, two functions closely related to reformulation (Antos 2011 [1982]) which show subtle differences not experimentally studied until now. In line with previous studies, this paper adopts a theoretical-experimental approach using eye tracking to identify different processing patterns associated with each function. These differences are also examined to account for the presence or absence of a discourse marker (specifically, the Sp. discourse marker o sea) in paraphrases and reformulations. For this purpose, the type and number of eye movements have been analyzed (fixations, regressions, saccades).

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