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Eye movements during visual speech perception in deaf and hearing children
Worster, Elizabeth Pimperton, Hannah Ralph-Lewis, Amelia Monroy, Laura Hulme, Charles Macsweeney, Mairéad
Worster, Elizabeth
Pimperton, Hannah
Ralph-Lewis, Amelia
Monroy, Laura
Hulme, Charles
Macsweeney, Mairéad
Abstract
For children who are born deaf, lipreading (speechreading) is an important source of access to spoken language. We used eye tracking to investigate the strategies used by deaf (n = 33) and hearing 5–8‐year‐olds (n = 59) during a sentence speechreading task. The proportion of time spent looking at the mouth during speech correlated positively with speechreading accuracy. In addition, all children showed a tendency to watch the mouth during speech and watch the eyes when the model was not speaking. The extent to which the children used this communicative pattern, which we refer to as social‐tuning, positively predicted their speechreading performance, with the deaf children showing a stronger relationship than the hearing children. These data suggest that better speechreading skills are seen in those children, both deaf and hearing, who are able to guide their visual attention to the appropriate part of the image and in those who have a good understanding of conversational turn‐taking.
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Date
2017
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Journal article
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Language Learning: a journal of research in language studies
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Volume
68
Issue
1
Page Range
159-179
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Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE)
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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