{"pk":29833,"title":"Children’s attribution of disfluency to different sources","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Disfluency in speech leads listeners, even two-year-oldchildren, to expect the speaker to refer to novel and discourse-new objects. Previous evidence suggests this link betweendisfluency and discourse novelty is not driven simply bytracking of co-occurrence statistics connecting disfluency withreference to a new object, but also by integrating extra-linguistic information about the speaker’s perspective. Weasked whether children can attribute a speaker’s disfluency todifferent sources – language planning difficulty vs. distractionfrom the conversation. We tested children’s processing ofdisfluency when interacting with an engaged versus adistracted speaker. When the engaged speaker was disfluent,children looked more at a novel and discourse-new image thanat a familiar and just-named image, consistent with the existingliterature. This disfluency effect was attenuated when thespeaker was distracted, suggesting that four-year-old childrencan flexibly attribute a speaker’s disfluency to different sourcesin online interpretation of disfluent speech.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Speech disfluency; Eye-tracking; Pragmaticinference; Attention; Source of disfluency"}],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cq8d2h5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Si","middle_name":"On","last_name":"Yoon","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Iowa","department":""},{"first_name":"Cynthia","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Fisher","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","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/29833/galley/19687/download/"}]}