Methodological aspects of language processing research with adults and children: Reading research and the Visual World Paradigm

Research on language comprehension has benefited greatly from the use of eye-tracking methodology. However, the technique is not easy to use. In particular, the creation of (auditory and visual) stimuli and the analysis of eye-movement data are difficult and laborious. The presentation will deal with these methodological issues by discussing some reading and visual world paradigm experiments with adult participants, with the aim to address problems that are relevant to child research as well. In addition, the talk will go into some reading and visual world paradigm experiments with child participants.