{"pk":29458,"title":"Online Article Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Preschoolers with\nSpecific Language Impairment: A Language-Mediated Visual Attention Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Article production difficulties in Spanish-speaking children\nwith specific language impairment (SLI) are well documented.\nHowever, evidence on article comprehension is scarce. In an\neye tracking experiment, we compared online comprehension\nof definite and indefinite articles in monolingual Spanish-\nspeaking children with SLI and children with typical language\ndevelopment (TLD) matched for age. Children listened to\nsimple phrases while inspecting a visual context with four\nimages. The article in the phrase agreed in number and gender\nwith the target image only. Visual target preference was\nmonitored as the phrase unfolded. Eye movements revealed\nthat children with SLI showed a weak preference for the target\non indefinite article trials only after hearing the noun, although\nno significant effects of definiteness were observed. In\ncontrast, children with TLD were able to use the article to\nanticipate the noun. These findings contribute to reducing the\ngap between article production and comprehension in children\nwith SLI.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Specific language impairment; grammar; articles;\ncomprehension; eye movements"}],"section":"Reading and Processing","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28p6f68s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Helo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad de Chile","department":""},{"first_name":"Carmen","middle_name":"Julia","last_name":"Coloma","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad de Chile","department":""},{"first_name":"Zulema","middle_name":"","last_name":"De Barbieri","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad Santo Tomás","department":""},{"first_name":"Ernesto","middle_name":"","last_name":"Guerra","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universidad de Chile","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29458/galley/19318/download/"}]}