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An eye-movement study of real-time interpretation of simple sentences in children with SLI. |
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Arielle Borovsky - Stanford, Univ. of California, San Diego
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Erin Burns - San Diego State University
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Jeff Elman - Univ. of California, San Diego
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Julia Evans - San Diego State University
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2012 |
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| - Cognition/Language |
| - Language Impairment, School Age |
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Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have numerous deficits in spoken sentence comprehension and processing speed, but little work has examined how this population interprets sentences in real-time. We examine this question using an eye-tracking task in children with SLI (n=12), and age-matched peers (TD; n=14). Participants viewed a four-alternative forced-choice display while listening to sentences where the object referred to one of the images (“The pirate hides the treasure”). Along with the target picture (Target; treasure), non-target pictures were either related to the sentential Agent (Agent-Related; ship), the Action (Action-Related; bone), or Unrelated (cat). Both groups were equally fast to direct fixations to the sentence-final object. The TD group temporarily considered objects that were locally consistent with the action, whereas the SLI group did not. This suggests that children with SLI may have difficulty maintaining multiple interpretations or may rely on potentially non-linguistic event-level information during spoken sentence interpretation. Additional group differences in spatial may reflect semantic integration deficits in SLI.
Funding: RO1-DC005650 to JuE, R01-HD053136 to JeE
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