Jachmann, Torsten; Drenhaus, Heiner; Staudte, Maria; Crocker, Matthew W.

(Dis-)confirmation of linguistic prediction by non-linguistic cues

24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, 2018.

Gaze Cues in face-to-face interactions

Speakers‘ direct their gaze toward an object approximately 800ms before mentioning. (Griffin & Bock, 2000)
Previous studies showed that listeners utilize speakers‘ gaze to form predictions about the unfolding sentence. (Jachmann et al., 2017)
Do listeners utilize this external cue to validate expectations about the unfolding sentence? And, if so, how does this effect the comprehension of the noun?