Taking a second or a third look at symbolic but not at literal haiku: An 
eye-tracking study

Stregapede, Francesca; Meyer, Antje S.; Miall, Chris R.

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Taking a second or a third look at symbolic but not at literal haiku: An eye-tracking study

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Stregapede, Francesca
Individual Differences in Language Processing Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Psychology Department, The University of Brimingham;

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Meyer, Antje S.
Individual Differences in Language Processing Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Radboud University Nijmegen;

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Stregapede, F., Meyer, A. S., & Miall, C. R. (2011). Taking a second or a third look at symbolic but not at literal haiku: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at ECEM 2011 - 16th European Conference on Eye Movements, Marseille (FR).

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a bitter rain – two silences beneath the one umbrella Is the connotative meaning of a text readily available or is it accessed only after re-examining a text? Thirtyone English native speakers (10 male, mean age 21) read 24 haiku, 12 in their original/symbolic version and 12 in a version in which the most symbolic word (the keyword "bitter" in the example above) was replaced by a more literal word ("loud"), reducing the text’s symbolic purport. Participants' eye movements were recorded using the eye-tracker EyeLink 1000. The effect of the word substitution was measured globally, by comparing the total reading times for the two haiku types, and locally, by examining first pass duration and dwell time on a word closely connected to the keyword (the referent, "silences") and on the last word ("umbrella"), as this might show wrap-up processes. First pass durations showed no effects of the substitution. However, total reading time and dwell time on both the referent and the last-word regions were significantly longer for haiku with the original keyword than for haiku with the altered keyword. These findings suggest that the texts’ connotative meaning was not available immediately but only through re-reading of the texts.