Eye tracking studies of normative and atypical development

C Karatekin - Developmental review, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the use of eye tracking measures (saccades, smooth-pursuit eye
movements, fixations during scene and face perception, and pupillary dilation) to study …

Executive control in language processing

Z Ye, X Zhou - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
During communication, speakers and listeners need the mechanisms of executive control to
organize thoughts and actions along internal goals. Speakers may use executive functions …

Grammatical processing in language learners

H Clahsen, C Felser - Applied psycholinguistics, 2006 - cambridge.org
The ability to process the linguistic input in real time is crucial for successfully acquiring a
language, and yet little is known about how language learners comprehend or produce …

Children's (in) ability to recover from garden paths in a verb-final language: Evidence for developing control in sentence processing

Y Choi, JC Trueswell - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2010 - Elsevier
An eye-tracking study explored Korean-speaking adults' and 4-and 5-year-olds' ability to
recover from misinterpretations of temporarily ambiguous phrases during spoken language …

When production precedes comprehension: An optimization approach to the acquisition of pronouns

P Hendriks, J Spenader - Language acquisition, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Data from child language comprehension show that children make errors in interpreting
pronouns as late as age 6; 6 yet correctly comprehend reflexives from the age of 3; 0. On the …

Developmental changes in natural viewing behavior: bottom-up and top-down differences between children, young adults and older adults

A Açık, A Sarwary, R Schultze-Kraft, S Onat… - Frontiers in …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Despite the growing interest in fixation selection under natural conditions, there is a major
gap in the literature concerning its developmental aspects. Early in life, bottom-up …

Processing determinism

W O'Grady - Language Learning, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
I propose that the course of development in first and second language acquisition is shaped
by two types of processing pressures—internal efficiency‐related factors relevant to easing …

Development of executive control and language processing

R Mazuka, N Jincho, H Oishi - Language and Linguistics …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Research in executive function development has shown that children have poor control of
inhibition functions, including the inhibition of prepotent responses, control of attention, and …

Antecedent priming at trace positions in children's sentence processing

L Roberts, T Marinis, C Felser, H Clahsen - Journal of psycholinguistic …, 2007 - Springer
The present study examines whether children reactivate a moved constituent at its gap
position and how children's more limited working memory span affects the way they process …

The syntax-discourse interface

PB Schumacher - 2005 - torrossa.com
This book, which represents a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, is concerned with
the representation and interpretation of pronominal elements and focuses on issues at the …