Processing of emotional texts in Russian by native Russian speakers and Yakut-Russian bilinguals: An exploratory analysis of experimental data
This paper represents the first stage of an experimental project investigating the cognitive processing of emotionally-valenced textual stimuli in L2 by Turkic-Russian bilinguals with a control group of native Russian speakers. The study employs a specialized experimental design: participants are asked to read short emotional texts and perform emotional annotation task usinig standardized scales while their eye movements are recorded via an eye-tracker. The article presents results from an exploratory analysis of data from two groups - Yakut-Russian bilinguals (n=10) and native Russian speakers (n=10). The analysis of both the emotional annotations and oculomotor activity yielded several key results. Inter-group agreement on emotional evaluations was significantly higher among monolinguals than among bilinguals. However, despite this disparity in consensus, no statistically significant differences were found between the groups' mean ratings, suggesting that both cohorts identified analogous emotions in the texts. Regarding oculomotor behavior, native Russian speakers demonstrated patterns consistent with previous research: metrics of mean fixation duration and first-pass reading time indicated faster processing of positive texts compared to negative and neutral stimuli. In contrast, the Yakut-Russian bilingual group showed no statistically significant differences in eye-movement measures across texts of different valences. We hypothesize that this result may be attributed to higher inter-individual variability within the bilingual cohort. Another notable observation concerned the number of saccades between the annotation zone and the text during the evaluation task: bilingual participants returned to the text significantly less frequently than monolinguals. These preliminary findings will be further examined using an expanded sample of Turkic language speakers in subsequent research.
Keywords
Turkic-Russian bilingualism,
Yakut-Russian bilingualism,
emotional processing,
emotion annotation,
emotional text,
reding,
eye-trackingAuthors
| Kolmogorova Anastasia V. | HSE University | akolmogorova@hse.ru |
| Kulikova Elizaveta R. | HSE University | kulikova.e.r@hse.ru |
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