It is now estimated that about half of the world’s population has some knowledge of more than one language, and can therefore considered to be bilingual, following the common Grosjean definition: “ bilinguals are those people who need and use two (or more) languages in their everyday lives”. However, because of the increased globalization of our multicultural society, more and more people acquire, apart from their mother tongue (L1), one or more other languages (L2, 元…). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.īy now, psycholinguistics has gained a good understanding of monolingual reading behavior. įunding: This work was supported by Fonds voor Wetenscappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (FWO, Grant number: 11J0214N, received by UC) and the special research fund of Ghent University, GOA-Concerted Research Action with grant number: BOF13/GOA/032. The data can be found when using the following DOI. Data files include subject information, information on the materials and sentence-level eye tracking data. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedĭata Availability: We hereby declare that all data used in this paper are freely available online for other researchers to use and analyze as they see fit, provided reference to this paper and corpus is made in resulting writings. Received: JanuAccepted: JPublished: August 19, 2015Ĭopyright: © 2015 Cop et al. PLoS ONE 10(8):Įditor: Hua Shu, Beijing Normal University, CHINA
Citation: Cop U, Drieghe D, Duyck W (2015) Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel.