Virginia A. Marchman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Virginia A. Marchman is involved.
2014 Language exposure and online processing efficiency in bilingual development: Relative versus absolute measures Input and Experience in Bilingual Development, Grüter, Theres and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 15–36 | Article
This chapter summarizes what we know so far about the development of online processing skill in young bilingual children, with a focus on the relation between individual differences in language exposure and processing skill. We discuss evidence from studies with Spanish-English bilingual children… read more
2011 Causes and consequences of variability in early language learning Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 181–202 | Article
At every age, individuals vary substantially in language abilities. This chapter focuses on individual differences in language proficiency that are already evident in the second year of life. Although studies over a century have documented links between parent-child verbal interactions and later… read more
2008 Looking while listening: Using eye movements to monitor spoken language comprehension by infants and young children Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing, Sekerina, Irina A., Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen (eds.), pp. 97–135 | Article
The “looking-while-listening” methodology uses real-time measures of the time course of young children’s gaze patterns in response to speech. This procedure is low in task demands and does not require automated eyetracking technology, similar to “preferential-looking” procedures. However, the… read more
1990 What holds a narrative together? The linguistic encoding of episode boundaries IPrA Papers in Pragmatics 4:1/2, pp. 58–121 | Article
This paper presents a linguistic analysis of episode boundaries in narratives produced from a 24-page picture book by German and English speakers. We investigate the development of form/function relationships involved in the discursive organization of narratives, attempting to bring together… read more