Adults generate causally-structured situation models during comprehension and use them to predict upcoming referents. In an eye-tracked comprehension task, 36-month-olds (N = 115) did the same, using story-provided information to predict which character could plausibly be mentioned next. In critical sentences such as “...
Prediction is an important component of language comprehension, and language users may pre-activate multiple possible lexical continuations to different degrees. However, it remains unclear whether children with developmental language disorder (DLD) generate graded predictions and recover from prediction violations in...
Peng Zhang, Amanda Rose Yuile, Patricia Deevy et al.· Journal of Experimental Chil...· 0 citations
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While an emerging body of research has demonstrated that late talkers (LTs) show continued subclinical deficits in language abilities, less is known about their development of speech production skills. The current study investigated speech production abilities among 3-year-old children with a history of late ta...
Philip R. Curtis, Amanda Seidl, Bo-Shang Yin et al.· Journal of Speech, Language...· 0 citations
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