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Lammertink, I., Rowland, C. F., & Casillas, M. (2024). Who’s next? Turn anticipation in Dutch preschoolers with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024), Prague, Czech Republic.
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Casillas, M., & Frank, M. C. (2013). Children spontaneously predict turn-ends during conversation. Talk presented at the 5th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG 2013). Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2013-09-04 - 2013-09-06.
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Casillas, M., & Amaral, P. M. (2013). Linguistic hedges guide children's inferences about category membership. Poster presented at the 5th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG 2013), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Casillas, M., & Frank, M. C. (2013). The development of predictive processes in children’s discourse understanding. Talk presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013). Berlin, Germany. 2013-07-31 - 2013-08-03.
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Casillas, M., & Frank, M. C. (2013). Predictive processing during discourse comprehension. Talk presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. San Francisco, CA. 2013-12-02 - 2013-12-06.
Abstract
We investigate children’s online predictive processing as it occurs naturally, in conversation. We showed 129 children (1;0–7;0) short videos of improvised conversation between puppets, controlling for available linguistic information through phonetic manipulation: normal, prosody only (lowpass filtered), lexical only (rhythm controlled and pitch flattened), and none (multi-talker babble). We tracked their eye movements during the videos, measuring their anticipatory looks to upcoming speakers at points of turn switch (e.g., after a question and before an answer). Even one- and two-year-old children made accurate and spontaneous predictions about when a turn-switch would occur: they gazed at the upcoming speaker before they heard a response begin. By age three, children distinguished between different types of response-eliciting speech acts, looking faster to question- than non-question responses—but only when all linguistic information was available. By age seven, children’s gaze behavior also distinguished between rising and non-rising turns in the prosody only condition. These predictive skills rely on both lexical and prosodic information together, and are not tied to either type of information alone. We suggest that children integrate prosodic, lexical, and visual information to effectively predict upcoming linguistic material in conversation. -
Casillas, M., & Amaral, P. (2013). The internal structure of categories: resemblances and typicality in acquisition. Talk presented at the Workshop Concept Composition & Experimental Semantics/Pragmatics. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2013-09-02 - 2013-09-05.
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Casillas, M., Hilbrink, E., Bobb, S. C., Clark, E. V., Gattis, M.-L., & Levinson, S. C. (2013). Turn-timing in naturalistic mother-child interactions: A longitudinal perspective. Poster presented at DialDam: Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Semdial), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
Combining data from two longitudinal studies of young children, we track the development of turn-timing in spontaneous infant-caregiver interactions. We focus on three aspects of timing: overlap, gap, and delay marking. We find evidence for early development of turn-timing skills, in-line with the Interaction Engine Hypothesis. (see attached .pdf for our 2-page abstract)
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