A5074081503- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Categorization, perception, and language
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Linguistics and Education Research
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Topic Modeling
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Voice and Speech Disorders
- Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
College of Staten Island
2015-2024
City University of New York
2015-2024
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2011-2024
Goethe University Frankfurt
2024
National Research University Higher School of Economics
2016-2022
Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo
2021
York University
2013
University of Pennsylvania
1999
A great deal of psycholinguistic research has focused on the question how adults interpret language in real time. This work revealed a complex and interactive processing system capable rapidly coordinating linguistic properties message with information from context or situation (e.g. Altmann Steedman, 1988, Britt, 1994, Tanenhaus et al., 1995, Trueswell Tanenhaus, 1991). In study acquisition, however, surprisingly little is known about children process time whether they coordinate multiple...
Children's ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (e.g., red butterfly) as contrastive was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent placement (on the red, or on compared within a visual context containing two referents (a butterfly and fox) when only one of them had contrast member purple both grey fox). Contrastiveness enhanced by Russian-specific 'split constituent' construction Red put . .) which interpretation term requires pitch...
In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigate adults' and children's on-line processing of referentially ambiguous English pronouns. Sixteen adults 16 four-to-seven-year-olds listened to sentences with either an unambiguous reflexive (himself) or pronoun (him) chose a picture characters that corresponded those in the sentence. For adults, behavioural data, responses reaction times indicate pronouns are ambiguous. Adults' eye movements show competition between looks sentence-internal...
Abstract Background: In addition to the canonical subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, German also allows for non-canonical order (OVS), and case-marking system supports thematic role interpretation. Previous eye-tracking studies (Kamide et al., Citation2003; Knoeferle, Citation2007) have shown that unambiguous case information in sentences is processed incrementally. For individuals with agrammatic aphasia, comprehension of at chance level (Burchert Citation2003). The trace deletion...
It is well established in language acquisition research that monolingual children and adult second learners misinterpret sentences with the universal quantifier every make quantifier-spreading errors are attributed to a preference for match number between two sets of objects. The present Visual World eye-tracking study tested bilingual heritage Russian–English adults investigated how they interpret like Every alligator lies bathtub both languages. Participants performed sentence–picture...
Abstract This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university‐level advanced learners native speakers of representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates rate seven component skills English, including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, as well rich demographic language background data. We first demonstrate high reliability for ENRO tests their convergent validity with existing...
Abstract Errors involving universal quantification are common in contexts depicting sets of individuals partial, one-to-one correspondence. In this article, we explore whether quantifier-spreading errors more with distributive quantifiers each and every than all. Experiments 1 2, 96 children (5- to 9-year-olds) viewed pairs pictures selected one corresponding a sentence containing quantifier (e.g., Every alligator is bathtub). Both showed extra objects alligators or bathtubs) not...
Extensive cross-linguistic work has documented that children up to the age of 9–10 make errors when performing a sentence-picture verification task pairs spoken sentences with universal quantifier every and pictures entities in partial one-to-one correspondence. These stem from children’s difficulties restricting domain appropriate noun phrase are referred literature as quantifier-spreading (q-spreading). We adapted be performed conjunction eye-movement recordings using Visual World...
Abstract The Unified Competition Model ( MacWhinney, 2012 ) accounts for cross-linguistic differences in thematic role mapping. We investigated production and predictive use of accusative case morphology Russian-Hebrew bilingual children. also the processing testing Prediction-by-Production Account Pickering & Garrod, 2018 vs. Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis Prévost White, 2000 ). Three groups children aged 4–8 participated: Russian-Hebrew-speaking bilinguals, Russian-speaking...
Abstract This paper reports an expansion of the English as a second language (L2) component Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO L2), international database eye movements during text reading. While previous Wave 1 MECO project (Kuperman et al., 2023) contained L2 reading data from readers with 12 different first (L1) backgrounds, newly collected dataset adds eye-tracking on 13 distinct L1 backgrounds ( N = 660) well participants’ scores skills proficiency and information about their...
Two eye-tracking experiments in the Visual World paradigm compared how monolingual Russian (Experiment 1) and heritage Russian–English bilingual 2) listeners process contrastiveness online Russian. Materials were color adjective–noun phrases embedded into split-constituent construction Krasnuju položite zvezdočku . “Red put star .” whose inherent results from integration of multiple sources information, i.e., word order, prosody visual context. The showed that while monolinguals rapidly used...
ABSTRACT In the present study, we used a scanpath approach to investigate reading processes and factors that can shape them in monolingual Russian‐speaking adults, 8‐year‐old children, bilingual readers. We found adults’ eye movement patterns exhibited fluent process, representing effortless processing of written material: They read straight from left right at fast pace, skipped words, regressed rarely. Both high‐proficiency heritage‐language speakers’ second graders’ an intermediate...
Abstract This eye-tracking study establishes basic benchmarks of eye movements during reading in heritage language (HL) by Russian-speaking adults and adolescents high (n = 21) low proficiency 27). Heritage speakers (HSs) read sentences Cyrillic, their were compared to those Russian monolingual skilled adult readers, 8-year-old children L2 learners. Reading patterns HSs revealed longer mean fixation durations, lower skipping probabilities, higher regressive saccade rates than adults....
Abstract Heritage Spanish speakers and adult immigrant bilinguals listened to wh-questions with the differential object marker a ( quién / ‘who/who ACC ’) while their eye movements across four referent pictures were tracked. The heritage less accurate than immigrants in verbal responses questions, leaving objects unmarked for case at rate of 18%, but movement data suggested that two groups similar comprehension, both starting look target picture same point question identifying sooner ‘who ’...
Abstract This article investigates language variation and change in the grammatical gender system of Norwegian, where feminine agreement is process disappearing some Northern Norwegian dialects. Speakers Tromsø ( N =46) Sortland =54) dialects participated a Visual Word experiment. The task examined whether they used indefinite articles en , ei et ) predictively to identify nouns during spoken-word recognition, produced an elicited production task. Results show that all speakers neuter as...
Recently, Özge et al. have argued that Turkish and German monolingual 4-year-old children can interpret case-marking predictively disregarding word order. Heritage speakers (HSs) acquire a heritage language at home majority societal which usually becomes dominant after school enrollment. Our study directly compares two elicitation modes: in-lab (remote) webcam-based eye-tracking data collection. We test the extent to effects be replicated in using exact same design. Previous research...
The cue-based retrieval theory (Lewis, Vasishth, & Van Dyke, 2006) predicts that interference from similar distractors should create difficulty for argument integration, however this hypothesis has only been examined in the written modality. current study uses Visual World Paradigm (VWP) to assess its feasibility arising present a visual display during spoken language comprehension. aims extend findings Dyke McElree (2006), which utilized dual-task paradigm with sentences they manipulated...
Ample evidence suggests that monolingual adults can successfully generate lexical and morphosyntactic predictions in reading correct facilitate sentence comprehension. In this eye-tracking corpus study, we investigate whether the same is true for heritage language. Specifically, ask speakers (HSs) of Russian are able to anticipate and/or information upcoming words they differ from children L2 learners. We also interested literacy level (i.e., experience or fluency English) influences...
Previous research has shown that the computation of subject-verb number agreement can be derailed by presence syntactically illicit nouns, a phenomenon called attraction. By contrast, incidence attraction with anaphoric dependencies is less clear: previous work mostly focused on reflexives and strong pronouns, which sometimes show other times do not. Meanwhile, clitics—a different class pronominal anaphora—is scarcer. To expand empirical record, we examined clitic pronouns in an...