Gaze-Maps The timecourse of anticipatory sentence comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
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Online measurement of sentential comprehension: • Participants completed an experimental task modeled after Kamide, Altmann and Haywood (2003). • In this task, (see Figure 1) participants hear simple, fiveword sentences containing an Agent, Action and Object as they view images containing four objects. • Eye movements were simultaneously recorded. • The task is to select the image that corresponds to the sentential object.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011