Sandra A Zerkle
Biographic Data
| ID | 9437480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra A Zerkle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zerkle |
| SIGNATURE | ZERKLE S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8897-9468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Does referential expectation guide both linguistic and social constraints on pronoun comprehension
Print exposure predicts pronoun comprehension strategies in children
Language development requires children to learn how to understand ambiguous pronouns, as in Panda Bear is having lunch with Puppy. He wants a pepperoni slice. Adults tend to link he with Panda Bear, the prior grammatical subject, but young children either fail to exhibit this bias (Arnold, Brown-Schmidt & Trueswell, 2007) or do so more slowly than adults (Hartshorne et al. , 2015a; Song & Fisher, 2005). In the current study, we test whether langu…
Discourse attention during utterance planning affects referential form choice
An unstudied source of linguistic variation is the use of discourse-appropriate language. Sometimes individuals use linguistic devices (anaphors, connectors) to connect utterances to the discourse context, and sometimes not. We asked how this variation is related to utterance planning, using eyetracking with a narrative production task. Participants saw picture pairs depicting two events. They heard a description of the first event (Context pictu…
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Discourse attention during utterance planning affects referential form choice
An unstudied source of linguistic variation is the use of discourse-appropriate language. Sometimes individuals use linguistic devices (anaphors, connectors) to connect utterances to the discourse context, and sometimes not. We asked how this variation is related to utterance planning, using eyetracking with a narrative production task. Participants saw picture pairs depicting two events. They heard a description of the first event (Context pictu…
Print exposure predicts pronoun comprehension strategies in children
Language development requires children to learn how to understand ambiguous pronouns, as in Panda Bear is having lunch with Puppy. He wants a pepperoni slice. Adults tend to link he with Panda Bear, the prior grammatical subject, but young children either fail to exhibit this bias (Arnold, Brown-Schmidt & Trueswell, 2007) or do so more slowly than adults (Hartshorne et al. , 2015a; Song & Fisher, 2005). In the current study, we test whether langu…
Does referential expectation guide both linguistic and social constraints on pronoun comprehension
Linguistics (3 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Comprehension (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Pronoun (2 works) · Subject pronoun (2 works)