Julie Sedivy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3477824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Sedivy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sedivy |
| SIGNATURE | SEDIVY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preschoolers modulate contrastive inferences during online language comprehension
This study examined 4- and 5-year-olds' incremental interpretation of size adjectives, focusing on whether contrastive inferences are modulated by speaker behavior. Children (N = 120, 59 females, mostly White, tested between July, 2018 and August, 2019) encountered either a conventional or unconventional speaker who labeled objects in a correspondingly typical or atypical way. Critical utterances contained size adjectives (e.g., “Look at the big …
Memory Speaks
That's not what you said earlier
In a conversation, adults expect speakers to be consistent in their use of a particular expression. We examine whether four-year-olds expect speakers to use consistent referential descriptions and whether these expectations are partner-specific. Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we presented four-year-olds with arrays of objects on a screen. During training, Experimenter 1 (E1) used a target expression to identify one object (i.e. “the spotted dog”…
Whose ease of processing
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Speaker reliability in preschoolers' inferences about the meanings of novel words
Preschoolers participated in a modified version of the disambiguation task, designed to test whether the pragmatic environment generated by a reliable or unreliable speaker affected how children interpreted novel labels. Two objects were visible to children, while a third was only visible to the speaker (a fact known by the child). Manipulating whether a novel object was visible to both interlocutors or hidden from the child tested the child's un…
Implicature During Real Time Conversation
Grice's notion of conversational implicature requires that speaker meaning be calculable on the basis of sentence meaning, and presumptions about the speaker's adherence to cooperative principles of conversation and the ability of the hearer to work out the speaker's meaning. However, the actual real-time consideration of cooperative principles by both the hearer and speaker runs up against severe temporal constraints during language processing. …
Pragmatic versus form-based accounts of referential contrast
Evidence of Perspective-Taking Constraints in Children's On-Line Reference Resolution
Young children's communication has often been characterized as egocentric. Some researchers claim that the processing of language involves an initial stage that relies on egocentric heuristics, even in adults. Such an account, combined with general developmental difficulties with late-stage processes, could provide an explanation for much of children's egocentric communication. However, the experimental data reported in this article do not suppor…
Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension
Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from information provided by other perceptual and cognitive systems. To test the effects of relevant visual context on the rapid mental processes that accompany spoken language comprehension, eye movements were recorded with a head-mounted eye-tracking system while subjects f…
Eye movements as a window into real-time spoken language comprehension in natural contexts
Pragmatic versus form-based accounts of referential contrast
Eye movements as a window into real-time spoken language comprehension in natural contexts
Implicature During Real Time Conversation
Grice's notion of conversational implicature requires that speaker meaning be calculable on the basis of sentence meaning, and presumptions about the speaker's adherence to cooperative principles of conversation and the ability of the hearer to work out the speaker's meaning. However, the actual real-time consideration of cooperative principles by both the hearer and speaker runs up against severe temporal constraints during language processing. …
Integration of Visual and Linguistic Information in Spoken Language Comprehension
Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from information provided by other perceptual and cognitive systems. To test the effects of relevant visual context on the rapid mental processes that accompany spoken language comprehension, eye movements were recorded with a head-mounted eye-tracking system while subjects f…
Eye movements as a window into real-time spoken language comprehension in natural contexts
Evidence of Perspective-Taking Constraints in Children's On-Line Reference Resolution
Young children's communication has often been characterized as egocentric. Some researchers claim that the processing of language involves an initial stage that relies on egocentric heuristics, even in adults. Such an account, combined with general developmental difficulties with late-stage processes, could provide an explanation for much of children's egocentric communication. However, the experimental data reported in this article do not suppor…
Pragmatic versus form-based accounts of referential contrast
Implicature During Real Time Conversation
Grice's notion of conversational implicature requires that speaker meaning be calculable on the basis of sentence meaning, and presumptions about the speaker's adherence to cooperative principles of conversation and the ability of the hearer to work out the speaker's meaning. However, the actual real-time consideration of cooperative principles by both the hearer and speaker runs up against severe temporal constraints during language processing. …
Speaker reliability in preschoolers' inferences about the meanings of novel words
Preschoolers participated in a modified version of the disambiguation task, designed to test whether the pragmatic environment generated by a reliable or unreliable speaker affected how children interpreted novel labels. Two objects were visible to children, while a third was only visible to the speaker (a fact known by the child). Manipulating whether a novel object was visible to both interlocutors or hidden from the child tested the child's un…
Whose ease of processing
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That's not what you said earlier
In a conversation, adults expect speakers to be consistent in their use of a particular expression. We examine whether four-year-olds expect speakers to use consistent referential descriptions and whether these expectations are partner-specific. Using an eye-tracking paradigm, we presented four-year-olds with arrays of objects on a screen. During training, Experimenter 1 (E1) used a target expression to identify one object (i.e. “the spotted dog”…
Memory Speaks
Preschoolers modulate contrastive inferences during online language comprehension
This study examined 4- and 5-year-olds' incremental interpretation of size adjectives, focusing on whether contrastive inferences are modulated by speaker behavior. Children (N = 120, 59 females, mostly White, tested between July, 2018 and August, 2019) encountered either a conventional or unconventional speaker who labeled objects in a correspondingly typical or atypical way. Critical utterances contained size adjectives (e.g., “Look at the big …
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Comprehension (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)