Language Development

Our lab examines the development of language processing mechanisms, specifically with respect to reference processing.The following papers report research with children.

Arnold, J. E., Castro-Schilo, L., Zerkle, S., & Rao, L. (2019). Print exposure predicts pronoun comprehension strategies in children. Journal of Child Language, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000102

Arnold, J. E., Brown-Schmidt, S., Trueswell, J., & Fagnano, M.  (2005).  Children’s use of gender and order of mention during pronoun comprehension.   In Trueswell, J. C. & Tanenhaus, M. K. (Eds.), Approaches to studying world-situated language use: Bridging the language-as-product and language-as-action traditions. Boston, MA: MIT Press, pp. 261-281.

Arnold, J. E., Novick, J. M., Brown-Schmidt, S., Eisenband, J. G., & Trueswell, J. C. (2001). Knowing the Difference Between Girls and Boys: The Use of Gender During On-Line Pronoun Comprehension in Young Children. In A. J. Do, L. Domínguez, A. Johansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development , Vols 1 and 2 (pp. 59-69). Somerville, MA US: Cascadilla Press.

Arnold, J. E., Bennetto, L., & Diehl, J. J. (2009). Reference production in young speakers with and without autism: Effects of discourse status and processing constraints. Cognition, 110(2), 131-146. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.016

Arnold, J. E. (2008). THE BACON not the bacon: How children and adults understand accented and unaccented noun phrases. Cognition, 108(1), 69-99.