Reading English-language haiku: An eye-movement study of the 'cut effect'

• Main Authors: Thomas Geyer (Author), Franziska Günther (Author), Hermann J Müller (Author), Jim Kacian (Author), Heinrich René Liesefeld (Author), Stella Pierides (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Bern Open Publishing, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The current study, set within the larger enterprise of Neuro-Cognitive Poetics, was designed to examine how readers deal with the 'cut' - a more or less sharp semantic-conceptual break - in normative, three-line English-language haiku poems (ELH). Readers were presented with three-line hai...