Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Azpiroz, Maialen Iraola; Allen, Shanley; Katsika, Kalliopi; Fernandez, Leigh B.

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“…This production-comprehension asymmetry has recently been challenged by the findings of a ‘reverse asymmetry’ in various languages – that is, higher production compared to comprehension levels (Hendriks & Spenader, 2006; Johnson, de Villiers & Seymour, 2004; Pérez-Leroux, 2005; Ünal & Papafragou, 2016), and symmetrical acquisition of both modalities (Ruigendijk, Friedmann, Novogrodsky & Balaban, 2010). Thus, the precise relationship between comprehension and production is still a matter of debate (Azpiroz, Allen, Katsika, & Fernandez, 2019).…”

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Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven

2022

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence matching task measuring accuracy and response times (comprehension). We examined German five-to seven-year-old typically developing children and an adult control group. Our data showed quasi-perfect performance in comprehension in adults and in those children who had already mastered ditransitives productively. However, children who had not yet mastered the production of ditransitives showed comprehension abilities preceding production abilities. Unlike adults, in the comprehension task children did not react explicitly before the end of the auditory stimulus.

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Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven

2022

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Investigating the Uniform Information Density hypothesis with complex nominal compounds

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Fernandez,

Allen

2024

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The Uniform Information Density (UID) hypothesis proposes that speakers communicate by transmitting information close to a constant rate. When choosing between two syntactic variants, it claims that speakers prefer the variant distributing information most evenly, avoiding signal peaks and troughs. If speakers prefer transmitting information uniformly, then comprehenders should also prefer a uniform signal, experiencing difficulty whenever confronted with informational peaks. However, the literature investigating this hypothesis has focused mostly on production, with only a few studies considering comprehension. In this study, we investigate comprehension in two eye-tracking experiments. Participants read sentences of two different lengths, reflecting different degrees of density, containing either a dense structure (a nominal compound, NC) or a structure that spreads the information through more words (a noun followed by a prepositional phrase, PP). Favoring the UID hypothesis, participants gazed longer at text segments following the critical structure when it was an NC than when it was a PP. They also regressed more in sentences containing longer structures. However, the pattern of results was not as clear as expected, potentially reflecting participants’ experience with the denser structure or task differences between production and comprehension. These aspects should be taken into account in future research investigating the UID hypothesis for comprehension.

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Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Cited by 2 publications

References 26 publications

Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven

Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven

Investigating the Uniform Information Density hypothesis with complex nominal compounds

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