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Research Methods in Psycholin Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics Series Editor: Li Wei, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London The science of language encompasses a truly interdisciplinary field of research, with a wide range of focuses, approaches, and objectives. While linguistics has its own traditional approaches, a variety of other intellectual disciplines have contributed methodological perspectives that enrich the field as a whole. As a result, linguistics now draws on state‐of‐the‐art work from such fields as psychology, computer science, biology, neuroscience and cognitive science, sociology, music, philosophy, and anthropology. The interdisciplinary nature of the field presents both challenges and opportu- nities to students who must understand a variety of evolving research skills and methods. The Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics addresses these skills in a systematic way for advanced students and beginning researchers in language science. The books in this series focus especially on the relationships between theory, methods, and data—the understanding of which is fundamental to the successful completion of research projects and the advancement of knowledge. 1. The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Edited by Li Wei and Melissa G. Moyer 2. Research Methods in Child Language: A Practical Guide Edited by Erika Hoff 3. Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition: A Practical Guide Edited by Susan M. Gass and Alison Mackey 4. Research Methods in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics: A Practical Guide Edited by Nicole Müller and Martin J. Ball 5. Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide Edited by Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen 6. Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide Edited by Eleni Orfanidou, Bencie Woll, and Gary Morgan 7. Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide Edited by Francis Hult and David Cassels Johnson 8. Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide Edited by Zhu Hua 9. Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language: A Practical Guide Edited by Annette M. B. de Groot and Peter Hagoort Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language A Practical Guide Edited by Annette M. B. de Groot and Peter Hagoort This edition first published 2018 © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by law. 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Fennell 2 Visual Preference Techniques 18 Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Melanie Soderstrom, Dilara Deniz Can, and Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek 3 Assessing Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary in Child Language 40 Virginia A. Marchman and Philip S. Dale 4 Eye‐Movement Tracking During Reading 68 Reinhold Kliegl and Jochen Laubrock 5 The Visual World Paradigm 89 Anne Pier Salverda and Michael K. Tanenhaus 6 Word Priming and Interference Paradigms 111 Zeshu Shao and Antje S. Meyer 7 Structural Priming 130 Holly P. Branigan and Catriona L. Gibb 8 Conversation Analysis 151 Elliott M. Hoey and Kobin H. Kendrick 9 Virtual Reality 174 Daniel Casasanto and Kyle M. Jasmin 10 Studying Psycholinguistics out of the Lab 190 Laura J. Speed, Ewelina Wnuk, and Asifa Majid 11 Computational Modeling 208 Ping Li and Xiaowei Zhao vi Contents 12 Corpus Linguistics 230 Marc Brysbaert, Paweł Mandera, and Emmanuel Keuleers 13 Electrophysiological Methods 247 Joost Rommers and Kara D. Federmeier 14 Hemodynamic Methods: fMRI and fNIRS 266 Roel M. Willems and Alejandrina Cristia 15 Structural Neuroimaging 288 Stephanie J. Forkel and Marco Catani 16 Lesion Studies 310 Juliana V. Baldo and Nina F. Dronkers 17 Molecular Genetic Methods 330 Carolien G. F. de Kovel and Simon E. Fisher Index 354 List of Figures Figure 1.1 Examples of various infant language habituation tasks 5 Figure 1.2 Mean looking times across various trial types in Fennell and Byers‐Heinlein (2014) 12 Figure 2.1 The Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm 22 Figure 2.2 Means of single longest look in seconds to infant‐directed (IDS) and adult‐directed (ADS) speech stimuli 25 Figure 2.3 The Interactive Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm 26 Figure 2.4 Visual fixation to original label, new label, and recovery trials by condition 28 Figure 2.5 Eye gaze shifts toward and away from target in looking‐while‐listening task by age 30 Figure 2.6 The Headturn Preference Procedure 33 Figure 4.1 Typical eye tracker set up 71 Figure 4.2 Illustration of the gaze‐contingent moving‐window (top) and boundary (bottom) paradigms 73 Figure 4.3 Velocity‐based saccade detection 75 Figure 4.4 Determination of word boundaries with PRAAT software 80 Figure 4.5 Main effect of eye‐voice span and its interaction with predictability 81 Figure 5.1 Example of a screen‐based visual world paradigm experimental set up 90 Figure 5.2 Example visual display modeled after Altmann and Kamide (1999) 91 Figure 5.3 Timing of target fixations for each trial, for one participant and fixation proportions computed for same data 100 Figure 5.4 Proportion of fixations over time (from target‐word onset) to target (goat), cohort competitor (goal), and distractor in neutral and constraining verb conditions in Experiment 1 in Dahan and Tanenhaus (2004) 104 Figure 6.1 An illustration of the trial structure in Meyer and Schvaneveldt (1971) 113 Figure 6.2 An illustration of the prime‐target pairs used in Glaser and Düngelhoff (1984) 114 Figure 6.3 Results obtained by Glaser and Düngelhoff (1984) 115 Figure 6.4 Illustration of trial structures in the masked and unmasked conditions in de Wit and Kinoshita (2015) 119 viii List of Figures Figure 7.1 Example trial in a picture‐matching comprehension priming paradigm 138 Figure 7.2 Example trial in a picture‐matching and picture‐description production priming paradigm 140 Figure 7.3 Example trial in a sentence recall production priming paradigm 142 Figure 10.1 Comparison of cut and break verbs in Chontal, Hindi, and Jalonke 195 Figure 11.1 The basic architecture of a Simple Recurrent Network (SRN) 213 Figure 11.2 A sketch of the probabilistic model that incorporates distributional statistics from cross‐situational observation and prosodic and attentional highlights from social gating 219 Figure 11.3 A sketch of the DevLex‐II model 221 Figure 11.4 Vocabulary spurt simulated by DevLex‐II (591 target words) 223 Figure 13.1 Idealized example of an event‐related potential waveform in response to a visual stimulus, with labeled positive and negative peaks 248 Figure 13.2 Grand average ERPs from three parietal channels, elicited by the final words in the three conditions 257 Figure 13.3 Simulated EEG data illustrating the difference between ERPs and time‐frequency analyses in their sensitivity to
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