Look before you speak: children's integration of visual information into informative referring expressions

Children's ability to refer is underpinned by their developing cognitive skills. Using a production task (n = 57), we examined pre-articulatory visual fixations to contrast objects (e.g., to a large apple when the target was a small one) to investigate how visual scanning drives informativeness...

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Published in:	Journal of child language 2018-09, Vol.45 (5), p.1116-1143
Main Authors:	DAVIES, Catherine, KREYSA, Helene
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Adolescent Adults Age Differences Attention Barriers Child Child Development Child Language Child, Preschool Children Children & youth Cognition Cognitive skills Communication (Thought Transfer) Executive Function Eye Movement Measurements Eye Movements Female Fixation, Ocular Humans Information Inspection Inspections Language Acquisition Language Impairments Linguistics Male Native language acquisition Nouns Older children Pragmatics Prerequisites Preschool Children Reference (Semantic) Referents Semiotics Skills Task Analysis Visual Perception Visual Stimuli Work skills Young Adult
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