Understanding Children's Processing of Reference in Interaction

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Järvikivi, Juhani

• SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: In everyday conversation, we need to rapidly find referents for pronouns when we process language. This process is guided by what is said, but also by where and how it is said. How do children learn to understand pronouns in real time conversation? This project will investigate how real time processing of pronouns develops in 2.5-5.0 year-old children and how both child-based individual difference factors -- children's age, working memory, and language skills - as well as linguistic ('what'), visual ('where'), and prosodic ('how') factors influence this path. By comparing a series of laboratory-based eye tracking experiments as well as real-time language processing in a real world interaction - tracking children's eye movements to pronoun referents during picture book reading - this research program aims to lay the groundwork for a model of understanding pronoun processing development in young children.

• Date created

  2016-10-14

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Eye Tracking
  • IG
  • Child Language Processing
  • Discourse Processing
  • Pronoun Resolution
  • Successful SSHRC
  • Communication
  • Insight Grant
  • 2017
  • Language Acquisition
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Multimodal Language Comprehension
  • Children
  • Psychology
  • Reference

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3N29PJ85

• License

  © Jarvikivi, Juhani. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2024.