When Couches Have Eyes: The Effect of Visual Context on Children's Reference Processing

When Couches Have Eyes: The Effect of Visual Context on Children's Reference Processing

We examined the effects of semantic and visual cues to animacy on children's and adults' interpretation of ambiguous pronouns, using the visual world paradigm. Participants listened to sentences with object relative clauses that varied the animacy of potential referents, followed by test s...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Cooper-Cunningham, Monique Charest, Vincent Porretta, Juhani Järvikivi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
Subjects:
pronoun resolution
object relatives
animacy
visually situated language comprehension
child language processing
visual world eye tracking
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.576236/full

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