The Beijing Sentence Corpus: A Chinese sentence corpus with eye movement data and predictability norms

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This report introduces the Beijing Sentence Corpus (BSC). This is a Chinese sentence corpus of eye-tracking data with relatively clear word boundaries. In addition, we report predictability norms for each word in the corpus. Eye movement corpora are available in alphabetic scripts such as English, German, and French. However, there is no publicly available corpus for Chinese. Thus, to study predictive processes during reading in Chinese, it is necessary to establish such a corpus. Also, given the clear word boundaries in the sentences, BSC is especially useful to provide evidence relevant to the theoretical debate of saccade target selection in Chinese. With the large-scale predictability norms, we conducted new analyses based on 60 BSC readers, testing the influences of launch word and target word properties while controlling for visual and oculomotor constraints, as well as sentence and subject-level individual differences. We discuss implications for guidance of eye movements in Chinese reading.

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Pan, J., Yan, M., Richter, E. M., Shu, H., & Kliegl, R. (2022). The Beijing Sentence Corpus: A Chinese sentence corpus with eye movement data and predictability norms. Behavior Research Methods, 54(4), 1989–2000. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01730-2

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