Predictive Use of Grammatical Gender During Noun Phrase Decoding: An Eye-Tracking Study With German Children With Developmental Language Disorder

• Published in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 1056 - 1074
• Main Authors: Cholewa, Jürgen, Kirschenkern, Annika, Steinke, Frederike, Günther, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 05.03.2025
• Subjects: Child; Child Language; Comprehension; Cues; Eye-Tracking Technology; Female; Germany; Humans; Language Development Disorders - physiopathology; Language Development Disorders - psychology; Language Tests; Male; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Speech Perception; Germany

Predictive language comprehension has become a major topic in psycholinguistic research. The study described in this article aims to investigate if German children with developmental language disorder (DLD) use grammatical gender agreement to predict the continuation of noun phrases in the same way...