Using eye movements as a developmental measure within psycholinguistics
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John C. Trueswell
Abstract
This chapter describes and evaluates the use of eyetracking methods to study the development of spoken language production and comprehension. The emphasis will be on understanding the chain of inferences, or linking assumptions, researchers commonly make when going from measurements of eye position to conclusions about attention, reference and sentence parsing. It is argued that these assumptions are valid, though care is needed when disentangling developmental changes in visual attention from developmental changes in language processing abilities.
Abstract
This chapter describes and evaluates the use of eyetracking methods to study the development of spoken language production and comprehension. The emphasis will be on understanding the chain of inferences, or linking assumptions, researchers commonly make when going from measurements of eye position to conclusions about attention, reference and sentence parsing. It is argued that these assumptions are valid, though care is needed when disentangling developmental changes in visual attention from developmental changes in language processing abilities.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- List of contributors xvii
- Behavioral methods for investigating morphological and syntactic processing in children 1
- Event-related brain potentials as a window to children's language processing 29
- Using eye movements as a developmental measure within psycholinguistics 73
- Looking while listening 97
- What lurks beneath: Syntactic priming during language comprehension in preschoolers (and adults) 137
- Language acquisition research. A peek at the past: A glimpse into the future 169
- Index 187
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- List of contributors xvii
- Behavioral methods for investigating morphological and syntactic processing in children 1
- Event-related brain potentials as a window to children's language processing 29
- Using eye movements as a developmental measure within psycholinguistics 73
- Looking while listening 97
- What lurks beneath: Syntactic priming during language comprehension in preschoolers (and adults) 137
- Language acquisition research. A peek at the past: A glimpse into the future 169
- Index 187
