Anne E. Fernald
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne E. Fernald plays a role.
Articles
2011 Causes and consequences of variability in early language learning Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 181–202 | Article
At every age, individuals vary substantially in language abilities. This chapter focuses on individual differences in language proficiency that are already evident in the second year of life. Although studies over a century have documented links between parent-child verbal interactions and later… read more
2008 Looking while listening: Using eye movements to monitor spoken language comprehension by infants and young children Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing, Sekerina, Irina A., Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen (eds.), pp. 97–135 | Article
The “looking-while-listening” methodology uses real-time measures of the time course of young children’s gaze patterns in response to speech. This procedure is low in task demands and does not require automated eyetracking technology, similar to “preferential-looking” procedures. However, the… read more