Abstract
To what extent are the planning processes involved in producing sentences fine-tuned to grammatical properties of specific languages? In this chapter we survey the small body of cross-linguistic research that bears on this question, focusing in particular on recent evidence from eye-tracking studies. Because eye-tracking methods provide a very fine-grained temporal measure of how conceptual and linguistic planning unfold in real time, they serve as an important complement to standard psycholinguistic methods. Moreover, the advent of portable eye-trackers in recent years has, for the first time, allowed eye-tracking techniques to be used with language populations that are located far away from university laboratories. This has created the exciting opportunity to extend the typological base of vision-based psycholinguistic research and address key questions in language production with new language comparisons.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Attention and Vision in Language Processing |
Editors | R.K. Mishra, N. Srinivasan, F. Huettig |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 77-96 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-81-322-2443-3 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-81-322-2443-3 |
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Publication status | Published - 2015 |