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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">31333</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-30140</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Discourse complexity in the light of eye-tracking: a pilot Russian language study</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Дискурсивная сложность в свете данных о движениях глаз при чтении: пилотное исследование на материале русского языка</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5777-9161</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Toldova</surname><given-names>Svetlana Yur'evna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Толдова</surname><given-names>Светлана Юрьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>holds a Ph.D. in Philology and is Associate Professor of the School of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Head of Formal Linguistics Lab</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат филологических наук, доцент Школы лингвистики факультета гуманитарных наук</p></bio><email>toldova@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1706-6439</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Slioussar</surname><given-names>Natalia Anatol'evna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Слюсарь</surname><given-names>Наталия Анатольевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doctor Habil., Associate Professor of the School of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor of the Department of the Problems of Convergence in Natural Sciences and Humanities at St. Peterburg State University</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор филологических наук, доцент Школы лингвистики факультета гуманитарных наук НИУ ВШЭ, доцент кафедры проблем конвергенции естественных и гуманитарных наук, старший научный сотрудник института когнитивных исследований СПбГУ</p></bio><email>slioussar@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-8286</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bonch-Osmolovskaya</surname><given-names>Anastasia Aleksandrovna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бонч-Осмоловская</surname><given-names>Анастасия Александровна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor of the Faculty of Humanities</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент факультета гуманитарных наук</p></bio><email>abonch@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">National Research University Higher School of Economics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национально исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Saint Petersburg State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Санкт-Петербургский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-06-29" publication-format="electronic"><day>29</day><month>06</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Computational Linguistics and Discourse Complexology</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Компьютерная лингвистика и дискурсивная комплексология</issue-title><fpage>449</fpage><lpage>470</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-06-29"><day>29</day><month>06</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Toldova S.Y., Slioussar N.A., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Толдова С.Ю., Слюсарь Н.А., Бонч-Осмоловская А.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2022, Toldova S., Slioussar N., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Toldova S.Y., Slioussar N.A., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Толдова С.Ю., Слюсарь Н.А., Бонч-Осмоловская А.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Toldova S., Slioussar N., Bonch-Osmolovskaya A.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/31333">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/31333</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The paper explores the influence of discourse structure on text complexity. We assume that certain types of discourse units are easier to read than others, due to their explicit discourse structure, which makes their informational input more accessible. As a data source, we use the dataset from the MECO corpus, which contains eye movement data for 12 Russian texts read by 35 native speakers. We demonstrate that the approach relying on elementary discourse units (EDUs) can be felicitously used in the analysis of eye movement data, since fixation patterns on EDUs are similar to those on whole sentences. Our analysis has identified EDU outliers, which show shorter time of first fixation than estimated. We arranged these outliers into several groups associated with different discourse structures. First, these are statements with nominal predicates that set exposition of the text or macroproposition and, following those, EDUs that elaborate on the previous statement and signal the beginning of the narrative. Second, they are EDUs that serve as the middle component of a listing or a group of coordinated clauses or phrases. The final group represents EDUs that are part of an opposition, contrast or comparison. Discourse analysis based on EDUs has never been applied to eye movement data, so our project opens many avenues for further research of complexity of discourse structure.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В статье исследуется влияние структуры дискурса на сложность текста. Предполагается, что некоторые типы дискурсивных единиц читаются легче, чем другие, благодаря выраженной дискурсивной структуре, которая делает содержащуюся в них информацию более доступной для обработки. В качестве источника данных мы используем набор данных из корпуса MECO, который содержит данные о движении глаз для 12 русских текстов, прочитанных 35 носителями языка. В статье демонстрируется, что подход, основанный на элементарных единицах дискурса (ЭДЕ), может быть успешно использован для анализа данных о движении глаз, поскольку паттерны фиксации на ЭДЕ схожи с паттернами фиксации на целых предложениях. Проведеный анализ выявил выбросы ЭДЕ, которые показывают более короткое время первой фиксации, чем предполагалось. Они были разделены на несколько групп, связанных с различными структурами дискурса. Во-первых, это высказывания с номинативными предикатами, задающими экспозицию текста или макропропозицию, и следующие за ними ЭДЕ, развивающие предыдущее высказывание и сигнализирующие о начале повествования. Во-вторых, это ЭДЕ, которые служат средним компонентом перечисления или группы согласованных клаузул или фраз. Последняя группа представляет ЭДЕ, которые являются частью оппозиции, контраста или сравнения. Анализ дискурса на основе ЭДЕ никогда не применялся к данным движения глаз, поэтому наш проект открывает новые перспективы для дальнейшего исследования сложности структуры дискурса.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>discourse</kwd><kwd>text complexity</kwd><kwd>eye movement</kwd><kwd>EDU</kwd><kwd>MECO corpus</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>дискурс</kwd><kwd>сложность текста</kwd><kwd>движение глаз</kwd><kwd>ЭДЕ</kwd><kwd>корпус MECO</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The work has been supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within Agreement No 075-15-2020-793.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aaronson, Doris &amp; Steven Ferres. 1983. Lexical categories and reading tasks. 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