When listeners follow spoken instructions to manipulate real objects, their eye movements to
the objects are closely time locked to the referring words. We review five experiments
showing that this time-locked characteristic of eye movements provides a detailed profile of
the processes that underlie real-time spoken language comprehension. Together, the first
four experiments showed that listerners immediately integrated lexical, sublexical, and
prosodic information in the spoken input with information from the visual context to reduce …

When I&teners follow spoken instructions to manip, date real objects, their eye movements
to the objects are closely time locked to the referring words. We review five experiments
showing that this time-locked characteristic of eye movements provides a detailed profile of
the processes that underlie real-time spoken language comprehension. Together, the first
four experiments showed that listeners immediatel. v integrated lexieal, sublexical, and
prosodic infolwlation in the spoken input with information fi'om the vis, tal context to reduce …