Saoradh Favier|Antje S. Meyer|Falk Huettig
Literacy can enhance syntactic prediction in spoken language processing.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
language comprehenders use syntactic cues generate predictions online upcoming language previous research readingimpaired adults healthy lowproficiency adult child learners suggests reading skills related prediction spoken language comprehension investigated whether differences literacy also related predictive spoken language processing nonreadingimpaired proficient adult readers varying levels literacy experience using visual world paradigm enabled us measure prediction based syntactic cues spoken sentence prior predicted target word literacy experience found strongest predictor target anticipation independent general cognitive abilities findings suggest experience written language enhance syntactic prediction spoken language normal adult language users b processing skills transferred related tasks reading listening domains involve similar processes eg predictive dependencies representations eg syntactic psycinfo database record c 2021 apa rights reserved