Assessing receptive verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children: advances and cautionary tales
Sabrina Horvath,
Sudha Arunachalam
Abstract:Purpose
Using eye-tracking, we assessed the receptive verb vocabularies of age-matched late talkers and typically developing children (experiment 1) and autistic preschoolers (experiment 2). We evaluated how many verbs participants knew and how quickly they processed the linguistic prompt. Our goal is to explore how these eye-gaze measures can be operationalized to capture verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children.
Method
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