Eyes do not lie but words do: evidence from eye-movement monitoring during reading that misuse of evidentiality marking in Turkish is interpreted as deceptive

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Arslan, Seçkin and Tunalı, Elif Tutku and Çetin, Yağmur and Aydın, Özgür (2024) Eyes do not lie but words do: evidence from eye-movement monitoring during reading that misuse of evidentiality marking in Turkish is interpreted as deceptive. Functions of Language, 31 (1). pp. 90-108. ISSN 0929-998X (Print) 1569-9765 (Online)

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Abstract

Evidentiality encodes how a speaker has access to the information contained in his/her proposition. It has been shown that some ‘evidential language’ speakers make a deliberate choice of evidentials while telling lies (Aikhenvald 2004). In this study, we recruited 40 native speakers of Turkish, an ‘evidential language’, to judge statements with evidentials using an eyemovement- monitoring-during-reading study with an end-of-sentence deception detection task. The participants read sentences with four conditions, containing a direct or indirect evidential form either compatible or incompatible with the given information source. Our results show that the indirect evidential condition was detected as a lie more often than the direct evidential condition. Readers had the tendency to judge stimulus material with source-evidentiality mismatch to be untruthful. These findings were mirrored in the eye-movement data, as we found gaze duration to be longer at the critical verb region for indirect evidential and mismatch conditions.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: evidentiality; eye-movements; lie; Turkish
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: Elif Tutku Tunalı
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2024 14:58
Last Modified: 27 Aug 2024 14:58
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/49780

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