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A new paradigm for studying children’s online comprehension of their parent’s unscripted speech |
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Sudha Arunachalam - Boston University
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2015 |
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Special Session |
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We introduce a new paradigm to investigate how children process unscripted parental input using a tablet and a Tobii X2-30 eye-tracker. This portable setup permits parent-child interaction while yielding real-time data from the child. We will discuss implementation and potential applications of this approach. We will also present data from this paradigm on children’s abilities to rapidly identify which particular object in a visual scene their parent is talking about. Dyads consisting of a 3- to 4-year-old child and one of their parents played a finding game in which the parent’s goal was to get the child to point to one of six pictures by labeling or describing it. The results reveal interesting variation among parents in the labels they chose to provide, and similarities as well as differences in children’s processing as compared to prior literature using prerecorded auditory stimuli. This research program will reveal what aspects of parental input support children’s comprehension and may inform parent-training interventions. Funding: NIH 1K01DC013306-01A1 |
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