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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Valleau, Matthew James
• Konishi, Haruka
• Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick
• Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy
• Arunachalam, Sudha

Titel

An Eye-Tracking Study of Receptive Verb Knowledge in Toddlers

Ist Teil von

• Journal of speech, language, and hearing research, 2018-12, Vol.61 (12), p.2917-2933

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We examined receptive verb knowledge in 22- to 24-month-old toddlers with a dynamic video eye-tracking test. The primary goal of the study was to examine the utility of eye-gaze measures that are commonly used to study noun knowledge for studying verb knowledge. Forty typically developing toddlers participated. They viewed 2 videos side by side (e.g., girl clapping, same girl stretching) and were asked to find one of them (e.g., "Where is she clapping?"). Their eye-gaze, recorded by a Tobii T60XL eye-tracking system, was analyzed as a measure of their knowledge of the verb meanings. Noun trials were included as controls. We examined correlations between eye-gaze measures and score on the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI; Fenson et al., 1994), a standard parent report measure of expressive vocabulary to see how well various eye-gaze measures predicted CDI score. A common measure of knowledge-a 15% increase in looking time to the target video from a baseline phase to the test phase-did correlate with CDI score but operationalized differently for verbs than for nouns. A 2nd common measure, latency of 1st look to the target, correlated with CDI score for nouns, as in previous work, but did not for verbs. A 3rd measure, fixation density, correlated for both nouns and verbs, although the correlation went in different directions. The dynamic nature of videos depicting verb knowledge results in differences in eye-gaze as compared to static images depicting nouns. An eye-tracking assessment of verb knowledge is worthwhile to develop. However, the particular dependent measures used may be different than those used for static images and nouns.