LINGUIST List 21.2643 Fri Jun 18 2010 Diss: Cog. Sci: Sharma: 'Conceptualization to Speak About Natural ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Dhruv Sharma, Conceptualization to Speak About Natural Scenes in Children & Adults: An eye movements study Message 1: Conceptualization to Speak About Natural Scenes in Children & Adults: An eye movements study Date: 18-Jun-2010 From: Dhruv Sharma <dhruvlogophilia.in> Subject: Conceptualization to Speak About Natural Scenes in Children & Adults: An eye movements study E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, Allahabad Program: MA Cognitive Science Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2009 Author: Dhruv Raj Sharma Dissertation Title: Conceptualization to Speak About Natural Scenes in Children & Adults: An eye movements study Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science Dissertation Director: Ramesh Kumar Mishra Dissertation Abstract: To produce a sentence requires speakers to co-ordinate the production of words, so that they are ready for articulation and can be accessed by the production mechanism upon demand. Studies in Psycholinguistics have traditionally found these processes to require about a quarter of a second. Is this true for both children and adults? Or should we expect either population to be faster on the task? We here examine possible age-related differences in sentence production across natural images of varying complexity. Speakers described natural scenes depicting both transitive and intransitive verbs, and either a single or two human actors, using or not using an object. The latency of speech across the three different kinds of images suggests that children are faster. Also, the number of fixations, and the number of entries to the different image regions, are more for children. However, other eye-tracking measures (e.g. dwell times, dwell percentages, and average fixation duration times) are more for adults, suggesting a different pattern of attention allocation than that of children. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.