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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"visual world paradigm"”.
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A Study of Semantic Association and Reference in the Visual World Paradigm
<p>This study provides an in-depth look at how the memory and language systems interact during spoken language comprehension. Experiment 1 examines how the strength of associative relationships in memory, as measured by lexical co-occurrence based corpus-derived scores (Mutual Information), affects …
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Competing Cues in Ambiguous Speech Comprehension: The Role of Visual Competition and Linguistic Context
… these cues interact, particularly when relevant visual information is available. The present study used an adapted visual-world paradigm to examine how visual context, word-meaning frequency, and semantic context affect disambiguation. Results showed that dominant meanings and prior context …
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Comprehending counterfactuals
… the point of ambiguity resolution in cases where world knowledge has been violated (e.g. ‘Families could feed their cat a bowl of fish/ carrots’). The effects are compared across the different experimental paradigms used, including eye- tracking, event- related brain potentials and the visual …
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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
… is examined utilizing eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm to analyze bilingual processing in this study. Processing is measured through gaze fixation, and language dominance is operationalized using a novel relative fluency (RF) index. Results support that (1) These two populations do …
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Online accommodation of regional accents
… candidate theories. Three experiments used the visual world paradigm to examine the roles of memory and contextual cues to talker identity in the accommodation process. Listeners interpreted the speech of a male talker with an unfamiliar regional dialect of American English, in which the /æ/ …
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Reading experience predicts eye movements during online auditory comprehension
… language experience to predict performance in a visual world eyetracking task following Altmann and Kamide (1999). The design allows an effect of predictability of the target (top-down process) to be assessed separately from an overall facilitation in fixating the target (bottom-up effect). Study …
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Speech Production Effects on Word Learning and Memorization in Children
… tasks, and recognition tasks using the Visual World Paradigm with eye-tracking. This dissertation presents four articles that investigate different aspects of the Production Effect and Reverse Production Effect, with a larger goal of examining how children's developing cognitive and …
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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
It is a hallmark of natural language use that the way we talk about something reflects how it is represented in the mind of our conversation partner. This thesis studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. …
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… includes four experiments that use the visual world paradigm to explore the effects of dialect variation on spoken language comprehension among children between the ages of 3;0 to 11;11 years old (years;months) from two linguistic communities, European American speakers of GAE and …
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Language-Mediated Event Representations
… methods and ‘look-and-listen’ tasks in the visual world paradigm throughout to explore how manipulations of space influence accessibility for objects – in terms of fixations on objects depicted in a visual display during language comprehension – the experiments laid out in the present thesis …
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The acquisition of resyllabification in Spanish by English speakers
… gating task investigating /r/, and finally a visual-world paradigm eye-tracking experiment investigating whether or not multiple lexical candidates are considered while listening to phrases where /n/, /s/, and /r/ straddle the word boundary. While ultimately perception results show that …