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Ronfard, Samuel; Wei, Ran; Rowe, Meredith L. – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The looking-while-listening (LWL) paradigm is frequently used to measure toddlers' lexical processing efficiency (LPE). Children's LPE is associated with vocabulary size, yet other linguistic, cognitive, or social skills contributing to LPE are not well understood. It also remains unclear whether LPE measures from two types of LWL trials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Toddlers, Interpersonal Competence
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Davies, Catherine; Kreysa, Helene – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Children's ability to refer is underpinned by their developing cognitive skills. Using a production task (n = 57), we examined pre-articulatory visual fixations to contrast objects (e.g., to a large apple when the target was a small one) to investigate how visual scanning drives informativeness across development. Eye-movements reveal that…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Age Differences