Anticipatory Sentence Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Eye Movements during Listening

Autor/inn/en	Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Trueswell, John C.
Titel	Anticipatory Sentence Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Evidence from Eye Movements during Listening
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 34 (2013) 1, S.5-44 (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716411000592
Schlagwörter	Listening Comprehension; Semantics; Language Impairments; Speech; Oral Language; Sentences; Eye Movements; Verbs; Nouns; Language Processing; Children; Spanish; Phrase Structure; Psycholinguistics; Control Groups; Native Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hörverständnis; Semantik; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Speaking; Sprechen; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Sprachverarbeitung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Spanisch; Phrasenstruktur; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	Twenty-five children with specific language impairment (SLI; age 5 years, 3 months [5;3]-8;2), 50 typically developing children (3;3-8;2), and 31 normal adults participated in three eye-tracking experiments of spoken language comprehension that were designed to investigate the use of verb information during real-time sentence comprehension in Spanish. In Experiment 1, participants heard sentences like "El nino recorta con cuidado el papel" ("The boy trims carefully the paper") in the presence of four depicted objects, only one of which satisfied the semantic restrictions of the verb "recorta" (e.g., paper, clock, fox, and dinosaur). Eye movements revealed that children with SLI, like other groups, were able to recognize and retrieve the meaning of the verb rapidly enough to anticipate the upcoming semantically appropriate referent, prior to actually hearing the noun phrase "el papel" ("the paper"). Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that for all groups of participants, anticipatory eye movements were also modulated by the semantic fit of the object serving as the patient/theme of the verb. Relatively fine-grained semantic information of a verb was computed fast enough even by children with SLI to result in anticipatory eye movements to semantically appropriate referents. Children with SLI did differ from age-matched controls, but only slightly in terms of overall anticipatory looking at target objects; the time course of looking between these groups was quite similar. In addition, no differences were found between children with SLI and control children matched for mean length of utterance. Implications for theories that characterize SLI are discussed. (As Provided).
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