T Ostbye
An 'electronic' extramural course in epidemiology and medical statistics
International journal of epidemiology
regressions backward saccades common reading accounting 5 20 saccades yet relatively little known causes provide informationtheoretic operationalization two previous qualitative hypotheses regressions dub reactivation reanalysis argue hypotheses make different predictions pointwise mutual information pmi regressions source target intuitively pmi two words measures much less likely one word present given one hand reactivation hypothesis predicts regressions occur words associated implying high positive values pmi hand reanalysis hypothesis predicts regressions occur words associated implying negative low values pmi second theoretical contribution expand previous theories considering pmi also expected values pmi epmi expectation taken possible realizations regressions target rationale language processing involves making inferences uncertainty readers may uncertain read especially previous word skipped test theories use contemporary language models estimate pmibased statistics word pairs three corpora eye tracking data english well six languages across three language families indoeuropean uralic turkic results consistent across languages models tested positive values pmi epmi consistently help predict patterns regressions reading whereas negative values pmi epmi informationtheoretic interpretation increases predictive scope theories studies present first systematic crosslinguistic analysis regressions literature results support reactivation hypothesis broadly expand number language processing behaviors linked informationtheoretic principles