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The study examines how reading times differ between human-written texts and rewrites generated by large language models (LLMs). Using a RoBERTa-RT model trained on eye-tracking data, the authors compare predicted reading times for 496 paired articles and find that LLM rewrites are shorter overall but have higher predicted reading times per word. These differences correlate with linguistic changes such as longer, less frequent words, greater lexical diversity, and higher contextual predictability.
The study examines how reader proficiency influences the relationship between layer-wise surprisal from large language models (LLMs) and eye-tracking gaze measures. Using the MECO L2 corpus, researchers compared high- and low-proficiency readers on first-pass gaze duration (FPGD) and total gaze duration (TGD), finding that lower-proficiency readers exhibit deeper Predictive Depth for FPGD, while TGD shows deeper Predictive Depth across both groups. The results suggest that the distribution of predictive power across LLM layers relates to the timing and breadth of reading processes and varies with reader proficiency.
arXiv:2609.37121v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-linguistic effects are a central topic in bilingual first-language acquisition. Artificial learners can help investigate L1-L2 interactions by en...
The study introduces a scalable acoustic‑masking method to quantify how much each consonant contributes to word intelligibility. By silencing individual consonants in isolated words and measuring misrecognition rates with three ASR models, the authors define a mask‑induced misrecognition rate (MMR). Across English, Spanish, German, and Czech, MMR negatively correlates with phoneme frequency and positively with functional load, revealing that consonant importance varies by language.
The study investigates how disrupting conceptual versus referential information in short narratives affects human reading and large language model (LLM) processing. In humans, conceptual disruptions cause a strong, localized processing cost that peaks early and declines quickly, while referential disruptions produce weaker, gradually decreasing effects that are more influenced by sentence boundaries. In LLMs, both disruptions appear immediately at the manipulated word; surprisal patterns mirror human reading, whereas output-layer representations show that referential disruption initially causes a larger displacement before both types decay following a power-law.
arXiv:2505.12196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The impressive linguistic abilities of large language models (LLMs) have recommended them as models of human sentence processing, with some conject...