Childrens use of gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension Export

@article{citeulike:3733861, abstract = {Two experiments were conducted to examine the on-line processing mechanisms used by young children to comprehend pronouns. The work focuses on their use of two highly relevant sources of information: (1) the gender and number features carried by English pronouns, and (2) the differing accessibility of discourse entities, as influenced by order-of-mention in a clause. Adults use both evidential sources, as early as 200 ms after the offset of the pronoun (Arnold, Eisenband, Brown-Schmidt, \& Trueswell, 2000). We find that like adults, 3–5-year-old children use a pronoun’s gender to guide their choice of a referent, and that they use it rapidly on-line. But unlike adults, they show little or no signs of a first-mentioned bias, either off-line or on-line. This is consistent with a tendency for children to initially recruit reliable sources of constraint for language comprehension – in this case, the gender of the pronoun.}, author = {Arnold, Jennifer and Brown-Schmidt, Sarah and Trueswell, John}, citeulike-article-id = {3733861}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/016909600845950}, doi = {10.1080/016909600845950}, journal = {Language and Cognitive Processes}, keywords = {child\_development, eye\_movement, sentence\_processing}, number = {1}, pages = {1}, posted-at = {2008-12-02 02:02:30}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Psychology Press}, title = {Children’s use of gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/016909600845950}, volume = {99999}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3733861 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3733861 N2 - Two experiments were conducted to examine the on-line processing mechanisms used by young children to comprehend pronouns. The work focuses on their use of two highly relevant sources of information: (1) the gender and number features carried by English pronouns, and (2) the differing accessibility of discourse entities, as influenced by order-of-mention in a clause. Adults use both evidential sources, as early as 200 ms after the offset of the pronoun (Arnold, Eisenband, Brown-Schmidt, & Trueswell, 2000). We find that like adults, 3–5-year-old children use a pronoun’s gender to guide their choice of a referent, and that they use it rapidly on-line. But unlike adults, they show little or no signs of a first-mentioned bias, either off-line or on-line. This is consistent with a tendency for children to initially recruit reliable sources of constraint for language comprehension – in this case, the gender of the pronoun. IS - 1 JF - Language and Cognitive Processes EP - 1 TI - Children’s use of gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension PB - Psychology Press VL - 99999 SP - 1 KW - child_development KW - eye_movement KW - sentence_processing AU - Arnold, Jennifer AU - Brown-Schmidt, Sarah AU - Trueswell, John PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/016909600845950 ER -