Eye-Tracking Data on L2 Morphological Salience and Attention

A study dataset investigating the effects of morphological boundedness and length on attention and intake in second language reading. The data was collected by Georgia Knell using an English-based semi-artificial language in a reading-based learning task. It includes eye-tracking measures of attention and retrospective interviews measuring awareness.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between morphological boundedness and attention measures based on eye-tracking data.
• Investigating the interaction between morpheme length and boundedness on fixation and skipping rates.
• Examining the moderating effects of individual learner variables like L2 proficiency and working memory on salience effects.
• Comparing attention and awareness outcomes between incidental and intentional learning conditions.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• Study design isolates morphological boundedness as an independent variable, a novel approach according to the description.
• Employs multiple measurement methods: eye-tracking for attention and retrospective interviews for awareness.

Limitations

• Dataset scale is limited to 283.4 KB; row and column counts are unknown.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description reports no evidence of intake (learning) was found in the results.

Provenance

Source

Georgia Knell via figshare.

Collection Method

Data was gathered from an implicit, reading-based learning task using an English-based semi-artificial language and eye-tracking.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 04:13:24; freshness should be verified.