This talk will largely consist of the preseqntation of piping hot
experimental results from an eye-tracking study on speech-contingent
eye movements potentially being beneficial for linguistic processing.

The more general direction of research the current study is embedded
in consists of questions about the nature, functionality and
automaticity of eye movements that people make to objects referred to
by spoken language. Though these eye movements have been observed
reliably and used in numerous studies on human language processing,
the abovementioned issues are still largely unresolved.

Addressing the question of whether these speech-contingent eye
movements in themselves aid the comprehension of spoken language an
experiment was set up to combine the assessment of language
comprehension through an auditory lexical decision task with the
observation of eye movements made to referents of spoken words.