{"pk":25692,"title":"Anticipatory and Locally Coherent Lexical Activation Varies as a Function of\nLanguage Proficiency","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Interpreting sentences spoken in a second language can be\ndemanding and plagued with uncertainty, especially for lower\nproficiency listeners. While native language listeners use\nnumerous information sources to anticipate upcoming words\naccurately, the pattern of anticipation may be different for\nsecond language users. We explore this issue in bilinguals with\nvarying English proficiency by recording anticipatory eyemovements\nas participants listened to sentences (e.g., “The\npirate chases the ship”) for which the object and three\ndistractors (agent-related, action-related, unrelated) appeared\nin the concurrently presented images. Higher proficiency\nparticipants were faster than lower proficiency participants.\nFixations to action-related distractors after onset of the action\nalso varied by proficiency, with lower proficiency participants\nshowing greater tendency to fixate this locally coherent actionrelated\ndistractor. This final effect is supported by a trial level\nanalysis, but appears to be unrelated to the effect of proficiency\non anticipation speed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"individual differences"},{"word":"Language Processing"},{"word":"SLA"},{"word":"eye-tracking"},{"word":"Visual-world paradigm"},{"word":"prediction"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1pf4g78m","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ryan","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Peters","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Theres","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gruter","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa","department":""},{"first_name":"Arielle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Borovsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Florida State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25692/galley/15316/download/"}]}