scholarly journals Semantic meaning and pragmatic interpretation in 5-year-olds: Evidence from real-time spoken language comprehension.

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1723-1739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Ting Huang ◽  
Jesse Snedeker
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Pragmatic Interpretation ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

Eye movements as a window into real-time spoken language comprehension in natural contexts

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 409-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Eberhard ◽  
Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton ◽  
Julie C. Sedivy ◽  
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

Activation and Persistence of Implicit Causality Information in Spoken Language Comprehension

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirita Pyykkönen ◽  
Juhani Järvikivi
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Visual World ◽  
Implicit Causality ◽  
Causality Information ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

A visual world eye-tracking study investigated the activation and persistence of implicit causality information in spoken language comprehension. We showed that people infer the implicit causality of verbs as soon as they encounter such verbs in discourse, as is predicted by proponents of the immediate focusing account ( Greene & McKoon, 1995 ; Koornneef & Van Berkum, 2006 ; Van Berkum, Koornneef, Otten, & Nieuwland, 2007 ). Interestingly, we observed activation of implicit causality information even before people encountered the causal conjunction. However, while implicit causality information was persistent as the discourse unfolded, it did not have a privileged role as a focusing cue immediately at the ambiguous pronoun when people were resolving its antecedent. Instead, our study indicated that implicit causality does not affect all referents to the same extent, rather it interacts with other cues in the discourse, especially when one of the referents is already prominently in focus.

Lexical representations in spoken language comprehension

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Marslen-Wilson ◽  
Colin M. Brown ◽  
Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Lexical Representations ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension
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