%0 Journal Article
%T The repeated name penalty effect in children¡¯s natural reading: Evidence from eye tracking
%A Sarah Eilers
%A Sascha Schroeder
%A Simon P Tiffin-Richards
%J Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
%@ 1747-0226
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1747021818757712
%X We report data from an eye tracking experiment on the repeated name penalty effect in 9-year-old children and young adults. The repeated name penalty effect is informative for the study of children¡¯s reading because it allows conclusions about children¡¯s ability to direct attention to discourse-level processing cues during reading. We presented children and adults simple three-sentence stories with a single referent, which was referred to by an anaphor¡ªeither a pronoun or a repeated name¡ªdownstream in the text. The anaphor was either near or far from the antecedent. We found a repeated name penalty effect in early processing for children as well as adults, suggesting that beginning readers are already susceptible to discourse-level expectations of anaphora during reading. Furthermore, children¡¯s reading was more influenced by the distance of anaphor and antecedent than adults¡¯, which we attribute to differences in reading fluency and the resulting cognitive load during reading
%K Eye tracking
%K children¡¯s reading
%K repeated name penalty effect
%K anaphora processing
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747021818757712