Falk Huettig|Susanne Brouwer
Delayed Anticipatory Spoken Language Processing in Adults with Dyslexia—Evidence from Eye?tracking
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Utrecht University
well established anticipation upcoming input key characteristic spoken language comprehension also frequently observed literacy influences spoken language processing investigated whether anticipatory spoken language processing related individuals word reading abilities dutch adults dyslexia control group participated two eyetracking experiments experiment 1 conducted assess whether adults dyslexia show typical languagemediated eye gaze patterns eye movements adults without dyslexia closely replicated earlier research spoken language used direct attention relevant objects environment closely timelocked manner experiment 2 participants received instructions eg kijk naar decom afgebeelde pianocom look displayed piano viewing four objects articles dutch het de gender marked article agreed gender target thus participants could use gender information article predict target object adults dyslexia anticipated target objects much later controls moreover participants word reading scores correlated positively anticipatory eye movements conclude discussing mechanisms reading abilities may influence predictive language processing