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Children flexibly seek visual information to support signed and spoken language comprehension.

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: = 31) fixated longer on a speaker's face while processing language in a noisy auditory environment. Critically, like the ASL learners in Experiment 1, this delay resulted in gathering more visual information and a higher proportion of language-consistent gaze shifts. Taken together, these studies suggest that young listeners can adapt their gaze to seek visual information from social partners to support real-time language comprehension. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology General

DOI: 10.1037/xge0000702

Authors: Kyle MacDonald, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, Michael C. Frank

Language: English

Topic: Hearing Impairment and Communication

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Infant Speech Processing as Predictor of Language Disorder in English and Spanish, Real Time Processing of ASL in Deaf and Hearing Native-Signing Infants, Early language processing skill and school-relevant outcomes in emerging bilingual students

OpenAlex ID: W2952957494

FWCI: 3.604

Cites: 47

Cited by: 17

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