Advanced-level task: More uses of the visual world paradigm (3 hours)

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The visual world paradigm can be used for all kinds of different research. We have looked atexamples of how it's used for studying how phonetics/phonology matters in understanding single words, and how it's used for studying predictions in sentence-level comprehension. But itcan be used for pretty much any topic of linguistics; there's visual world research examining pragmatics, bilingualism, semantics, morphology, everything.

Below I have put a list of several really cool visual world eye-tracking experiments, and a list of several linguistics topics. Browse the papers and match the topics to the papers. Also, choose one paper that you find interesting, and write a brief (100 words or less) summary of what it's about and what was done in the experiment.

Experiments

1. Spivey, M., & Marian, V. (1999). DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00151
2. McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M., & Aslin, R. (2000). DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00157-9
3. Wang, X., Wang, J., & Malins, J. (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.07.013
4. Huang, Y., & Snedeker, J. (2009). DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2008.09.001
5. Politzer-Ahles, S., Connell, K., Pan, L., & Hsu, Y. (in prep.). manuscript
6. Chow, W., & Chen, D. (2020). DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2020.1733627

Topics

1. Bilingualism
2. Bilingualism
3. Pragmatics
4. Sentence comprehension
5. Phonetics
6. Phonetics

What's here is only a tiny sample of the visual world eye-tracking experiments in the world. For a huge review of eye-tracking research, see this paper:

• Huettig, F., Rommers, J., & Meyer, A. S. (2011). Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: a review and critical evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 137, 151-171.

by Stephen Politzer-Ahles. Last modified on 2021-05-14. CC-BY-4.0.