Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] 2016. x, 358 pp.
Pia Knoeferle
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pia Knoeferle plays a role.
Title
Subjects Consciousness research | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 3. Effects of a speaker’s gaze on language comprehension and acquisition Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue, Brône, Geert and Bert Oben (eds.), pp. 47–66 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the role of a speaker’s gaze on a listener’s language processing, recall of information, and on child language learning. Speaker gaze facilitates performance in all of these domains, which suggests that it plays an important role in communication. Indeed, the findings… read more
2016 Characterising visual context effects: Active, pervasive, but resource-limited Visually Situated Language Comprehension, Knoeferle, Pia, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker (eds.), pp. 227–260 | Article
In this chapter, I will review recent research on visually situated language comprehension, and in doing so identify key characteristics of situated language comprehension. More specifically I will argue that both active visual context effects and the temporally coordinated interplay between visual… read more
2012 What’s non-linguistic visual context? A view from language comprehension What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
This article contributes to the volume “What is a Context” by delineating “non-linguistic visual context” from a language-processing perspective. Psycholinguistic research has shown that visual context can influence language processing through referential and lexico-semantic links. We review these… read more