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ArticlePloS one2022

Children's and adults' use of fictional discourse and semantic knowledge for prediction in language processing.

Ruth Lee, Craig G Chambers, Falk Huettig, Patricia A Ganea

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Article in PloS one, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ruth LeeOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto St. George, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8854-1968
Craig G ChambersDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Falk HuettigPsychology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Patricia A GaneaOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto St. George, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Abstract

Using real-time eye-movement measures, we asked how a fantastical discourse context competes with stored representations of real-world events to influence the moment-by-moment interpretation of a story by 7-year-old children and adults. Seven-year-olds were less effective at bypassing stored real-world knowledge during real-time interpretation than adults. Our results suggest that children privilege stored semantic knowledge over situation-specific information presented in a fictional story context. We suggest that 7-year-olds' canonical semantic and conceptual relations are sufficiently strongly rooted in statistical patterns in language that have consolidated over time that they overwhelm new and unexpected information even when the latter is fantastical and highly salient.

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