The role of prediction error in the development of language learning and memory

J Kray, L Sommerfeld, A Borovsky… - Child Development …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Prediction error plays a pivotal role in theories of learning, including theories of language
acquisition and use. Researchers have investigated whether and under which conditions …

Wisdom comes with age? The role of grammatical gender in predictive processing in Russian children and adults

A Aumeistere, S Bultena, S Brouwer - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This study investigated whether adult and 3-to 6-year-old native speakers of Russian can
use gender-marked adjectives to predict the upcoming noun during sentence …

Prediction on the basis of gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children

JE Bosch, M Chailleux, J Yee, MT Guasti… - Studies in …, 2022 - torrossa.com
The present study used a visual world eye-tracking paradigm to investigate online
processing of grammatical gender and number in Mandarin-Italian bilingual children, in …

The development of predictive gender processing strategies during noun phrase decoding: An eye-tracking study with German 5-to 10-year-old children

T Günther, A Kirschenkern, A Mayer, F Steinke… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Many models of language comprehension assume that listeners predict the
continuation of an incoming linguistic stimulus immediately after its onset, based on only …

Predictive processing of grammatical gender in bilingual children: The effect of cross-linguistic incongruency and language dominance

JE Bosch, F Foppolo - Lingue e linguaggio, 2022 - rivisteweb.it
This study investigates linguistic prediction based on grammatical gender in Italian-German
bilingual children aged six to ten, using a visual world eye-tracking paradigm. Children …

The Importance of Eye Movement Research for Gaining Insight into Morphological Processing

R Bertram, J Hyönä - Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
During the last 50 years, eye-tracking has become a highly popular method to study natural
language processing. Especially recently, the number of eye-tracking studies has increased …

Fine-grained differences in gender-cue strength affect predictive processing in children: Cross-linguistic evidence from Russian and Bulgarian

T Ivanova-Sullivan, N Meir, IA Sekerina - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2024 - Elsevier
We tested predictive gender agreement processing in adjective–noun phrases by 45 4-to 6-
year-old Russian-and Bulgarian-speaking children using the visual world eye-tracking …

Cross-linguistic gender congruency effects during lexical access in novice L2 learners: evidence from ERPs

A Zappa, D Mestre, JM Pergandi, D Bolger… - Language, Cognition …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Herein we present electrophysiological evidence of extremely rapid learning of new labels
in a second language (L2) for existing concepts, via computerized games. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish: evidence from the Visual World Paradigm

Z Fuchs - Morphology, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a psycholinguistic study of the processing of grammatical gender
agreement morphemes in Polish, which has three gender categories (masculine, feminine …

Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6-to 10-year-old …

A Buersgens, J Cholewa, A Mayer, T Guenther - Lingua, 2021 - Elsevier
In this eye-tracking study, we examined whether gender dissimilarity between the case-
marked subject and object noun phrases in a subject-verb-object (SVO) or object-verb …