Meredith C Laguna, Amelie A Hecht, Julian Ponce, Tyson Jue, Claire D Brindis, Anisha I Patel
Teachers as Healthy Beverage Role Models: Relationship of Student and Teacher Beverage Choices in Elementary Schools
Journal of community health
using visual world eyetracking examined whether adults n 58 children n 37 3163 use linguistic focussing devices help resolve ambiguous pronouns participants listened english dialogues potential referents ambiguous pronoun four conditions provided prosodic focus marking grammatical subject object either additionally itclefted reference condition focussed neither subject object adult online data revealed linguistic focussing via prosodic marking enhanced subject preference overrode case object focus regardless presence clefts childrens processing also influenced prosodic marking however performance across conditions showed differences adults well complex interaction memory language skills offline interpretations showed effects focus either group suggesting multiple cues processed subjecthood first mention dominate final interpretation cases conflict