Publications

Published:

2024

Kuperman, V., Schroeder, S., & Gnetov, D. (2024). Word length and frequency effects on text reading are highly similar in 12 alphabetic languages. Journal of Memory and Language, 135, 104-497.

Gnetov, D., & Kuperman, V. (2024). Reading proficiency predicts spatial eye-movement control in the first and second language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

2023

Battershill, K. & Kuperman, V. (2023). Linguist is as linguist does: A comparative study on the employment study on the employment and income of graduates from linguistics programs in Canada. Language, 99(4), e191-e209.

Coskun, M., Kuperman, V., & Rueckl, J. (2023). Long-lag repetition priming in natural text reading: No evidence for morphological effects. The Mental Lexicon, 18(1), 1-40.

Battershill, K., & Kuperman, V. (2023). A bird’s eye view of civic engagement and its facets: Canonical Correlation Analysis across 34 countries. Journal of Civil Society, 19:4, 437-463, DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2023.2255694

Parshina, O., Zdorova, N., & Kuperman, V. (2023). EXPRESS: Cross-linguistic comparison in reading sentences of uniform length: Visual-perceptual demands override readers’ experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231206719.

Reggin, L. D., Gómez Franco, L. E., Horchak, O. V., Labrecque, D., Lana, N., Rio, L., & Vigliocco, G. (2023). Consensus Paper: Situated and Embodied Language Acquisition. Journal of Cognition, 6(1): 63, pp. 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.308

Lana, N., & Kuperman, V. (2023). Learning concrete and abstract novel words in emotional contexts: Evidence from incidental vocabulary learning. Language Learning and Development, DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2246438

Kyröläinen, A. J., & Kuperman, V. (2023). Emotional State of Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the Cognitive and Social Well-Being (CoSoWELL) Corpus. Experimental Aging Research, 1-24.

Siegelman, N., Elgort, I., Brysbaert, M., Agrawal, N., Amenta, S., Arsenijević Mijalković, J., … & Kuperman, V. (2023). Rethinking First Language–Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project. Language Learning, 74(1), 249-294.

Zasiekina, L., Zasiekin, S., & Kuperman, V. (2023). Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury Among Ukrainian Civilians During the Ongoing War. Journal of Community Health, 1-9.

Benjamin, S., & Schmidtke, D. (2023). Conceptual combination during novel and existing compound word reading in context: A self-paced reading study. Memory & Cognition, 1-28.

Karabin, M., Kyröläinen, A. J., & Kuperman, V. (2023). Increase in linguistic complexity in older adults during COVID-19. Experimental Aging Research, 1-19.

2022

Kuperman, V. (2022). A cross-linguistic study of spatial parameters of eye-movement control during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 48(11)

Zasiekin, S., Kuperman, V., Hlova, I., & Zasiekina, L. (2022). War stories in social media: Personal experience of Russia-Ukraine war. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 9(2).

Kyröläinen, A. J., Gillett, J., Karabin, M., Sonnadara, R., & Kuperman, V. (2022). Cognitive and social well-being in older adulthood: The CoSoWELL corpus of written life stories.  Behavior Research Methods, 1-25.

Wild, H., Kyröläinen, A. J., & Kuperman, V. (2022). How representative are student convenience samples? A study of literacy and numeracy skills in 32 countries. PLOS ONE 17(7): e0271191.

Kuperman, V. (2022). Effects of linguistic distance on cognitive skills, health, and social outcomes in Canadian immigrants. Frontiers in Political Science, 72.

Jaggers, K., Gillett, J., Kuperman, V., Kyröläinen, A. J., & Sonnadara, R. (2022). Personhood and aging: Exploring the written narratives of older adults as articulations of personhood in later life. Journal of Aging Studies, 62, 101040.

Kuperman, V., Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Acartürk, C., Alexeeva, S., Amenta, S., … & Usal, K. A. (2022). Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-35.

Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Acartürk, C., Ahn, H. D., Alexeeva, S., Amenta, S., … & Kuperman, V. (2022). Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO) Behavior Research Methods, 1-21.

Wild, H. & Kuperman, V. (2022). Technical report on using in-house English-speaking assessments to place Mohawk College students in communication classes. 

McCarron, S. P., & Kuperman, V. (2022). Effects of Year of Post Secondary Study on Reading Skills for L1 and L2 Speakers of English. Journal of Research in Reading, 45(1), 43-64.

Kyröläinen, A. J., Luke, J., Libben, G., & Kuperman, V. (2022). Valence norms for 3,600 English words collected during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects of age and the pandemic. Behavior Research Methods, 54(5), 2445-2456.

2021

Oralova, G., & Kuperman, V. (2021). Effects of spacing on sentence reading in Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology, 5027.

Maslej, M. M., Mar, R. A., & Kuperman, V. (2021). The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(2), 272–283.

Kuperman, V., Bar-On, A., Bertram, R., Boshra, R., Deutsch, A., Kyröläinen, A.-J., Mathiopoulou, B., Oralova, G., & Protopapas, A. (2021). Prevalence of spelling errors affects reading behavior across languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(10), 1974.

Kyröläinen, A. J., & Kuperman, V. (2021) The effect of loneliness on cognitive functioning among healthy individuals in mid-and late adulthood: Evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Frontiers in Psychology, 3744.

Nisbet, K., Bertram, R., Erlinghagen, C., Pieczykolan, A., & Kuperman, V. (2021). Quantifying the difference in reading fluency between L1 and L2 readers of English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-28.

Brysbaert, M., Bakk, Z., Buchanan, E. M., Drieghe, D., Frey, A., Kim, E., Kuperman, V., Madan, C. R., Marelli, M., Valdivia, S., Dubravka, S., & Yap, M. (2022). Into a new decade (Vol 53, Pg 1, 2021). Behavior Research Methods, 53(1), 1-3.

Kuperman, V., Kyröläinen, A. J., Porretta, V., Brysbaert, M., & Yang, S. (2021). A lingering question addressed: Reading rate and most efficient listening rate are highly similar. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 47(8), 1103.

McCarron, S.P., & Kuperman, V.  (2021). Is the author recognition test a useful metric for native and non-native English speakers? An item response theory analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 53(5), 2226-2237.

Kyröläinen, A. J., & Kuperman, V. (2021). Predictors of literacy in adulthood: Evidence from 33 countries. PLoS ONE 16(3): e0243763.

Laippala, V., Egbert, J., Biber, D., & Kyröläinen, A. (2021). Exploring the role of lexis and grammar for the stable identification of register in an unrestricted corpus of web documents. Language Resources and Evaluation.

Libben, G., Kuperman, V., & Jarema, G. (2021). Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon, 1-237.

2020

Kyröläinen, A. & Laippala, V. (2020). Määrällinen korpuslingvistiikka [Quantitative corpus linguistics]. In M. Hamunen, R. Konstenius, M. Luodonpää-Manni, U. Nikanne, & K. Sinnemäki (Eds.) Theoretical orientations and methods in language research. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Kyröläinen, A. J., Keuleers, E., Mandera, P., Brysbaert, M., & Kuperman, V. (2020). Affect across adulthood: Evidence from English, Dutch and Spanish. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Imbault, C., Titone, D., Warriner, A.-B., and Kuperman, V. (2020). How are words felt in a second language: Norms for 2,628 English words for valence and arousal by non-native speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(2), 281-292.

Luodonpää-Manni, M., Jantunen, J., Kyröläinen, A., Vesanto, A., & Laippala, V. (2020). Commenting on poverty online: A corpus-assisted discourse study of Suomi24 forum. SKY Journal of Linguistics, 33.

Snefjella, B., Lana, N., & Kuperman, V. (2020). How emotion is learned: Semantic learning of novel words in emotional contexts. Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104–171.

Kuperman, V. & Deutsch, A. (2020). Morphological and visual cues in compound word reading: Eye-tracking evidence from Hebrew. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1–11.

Schmidtke, D., Van Dyke, J. A., & Kuperman, V. (2020). CompLex: an eye-movement database of compound word reading in English. Behavior Research Methods, 1–19.

Bertram, R. and Kuperman, V. (2020). The English disease in Finnish compound processing: Backward transfer effects in Finnish-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(3), 579–590.

Schmidtke, D., & Kuperman, V. (2020). Psycholinguistic methods and tasks in morphology.  In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

2019

Nisbet, K., Généreux, M., Anderson, B., and Kuperman, V. (2019). Clozapp: A Java Application for Collecting and Recording Cloze Probability Norms. The Mental Lexicon, 14(3), 399–414.

Bridgwater, E., Kyröläinen, A.-J., and Kuperman, V. (2019). The influence of syntactic expectations on reading comprehension is malleable and strategic an eye-tracking study of English dative alternation. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(3), 179–192.

Snefjella, B., Genereux, M., and Kuperman. V. (2019). Historical evolution of concrete and abstract language revisited. Behavior Research Methods, 51(4), 1693–1705.

Porretta, V., & Kyröläinen, A. J. (2019). Influencing the time and space of lexical competition: The effect of gradient foreign accentedness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Schmidtke, D. and Kuperman, V. (2019). A paradox of apparent brainless behavior: The time-course of compound word recognition. Cortex, 116, 250–267.

Bar-On, A. and Kuperman, V. (2019). Spelling errors respect morphology: A corpus study of Hebrew orthography. Reading and Writing, 32(5), 1107–1128.

Deutsch, A. and Kuperman, V. (2019). Formal and semantic effects of morphological families on word recognition in Hebrew. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(1), 87–100.

Kuperman, V. and McCarron, S. (2019). Technical report on reading-related abilities of Mohawk College students enrolled in Communication classes. McMaster University.

Rahmanian, S. and Kuperman, V. (2019). Spelling errors impede recognition of correctly spelled word forms. Scientific Studies of Reading, 23(1), 24–36.

2018

Schmidtke, D., Gagne, C., Kuperman, V., Spalding, T., and Tucker, B. (2018). Conceptual relations compete during auditory and visual compound word recognition. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 33(7), 923–942.

Johansson, M., Kyröläinen, A. J., Ginter, F., Lehti, L., Krizsán, A., & Laippala, V. (2018). Opening up# jesuisCharlie anatomy of a Twitter discussion with mixed methods. Journal of Pragmatics, 129, 90–101.

Laippala, V., Kyröläinen, A. J., Kanerva, J., & Ginter, F. (2018). Dependency profiles in the large-scale analysis of discourse connectives. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 1.

Henry, R., Van Dyke, J. A., and Kuperman, V. (2018). Oculomotor planning in RAN and reading: A Strong test of the visual scanning hypothesis. Reading and Writing, 31(7), 1619–1643.

Schmidtke, D., Gagne, C., Kuperman, V., and Spalding, T. (2018). Language experience shapes relational knowledge of compound words. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 33(7), 923–942.

Imbault, C., Shore, D., and Kuperman, V. (2018). Reliability of the sliding scale for collecting affective responses to words. Behavior Research Methods, 50(6), 2399–2407.

Snefjella, B., Schmidtke, D., and Kuperman, V. (2018). National character stereotypes mirror language use: A study of Canadian and American Tweets. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0206188.

Kuperman, V., Matsuki, K., and Van Dyke, J. A. (2018). Contributions of reader- and text-level characteristics to eye-movement patterns during passage reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 44(11), 1687–1713.

Imbault, C., and Kuperman, V. (2018). Emotional reactivity and perspective-taking in individuals with and without severe depressive symptoms. Scientific Reports, 8, 7634, 1–8.

Schmidtke, D., Van Dyke, J. A., and Kuperman, V. (2018). Individual variability in the semantic processing of English compound words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44(3), 421–443.

2017

Stadthagen-González, H., Ferré, P., Pérez-Sánchez, M. A., Imbault, C., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2017). Norms for 10,491 Spanish words for five discrete emotions: Happiness, disgust, anger, fear, and sadness. Behavior Research Methods.

Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., Imbault, C., Pérez Sánchez, M. A., & Brysbaert, M. (2017). Norms of valence and arousal for 14,031 Spanish words. Behavior Research Methods, 1–45.

Schmidtke, D., Matsuki, K. and Kuperman, V. (2017). Surviving blind decomposition: a distributional analysis of the time-course of complex word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 43(11), 1793–1820.

Kyröläinen, A. J., Luotolahti, J., & Ginter, F. (2017). An autoencoder-based neural network model for selectional preference: evidence from pseudo-disambiguation and cloze tasks. Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 8(2), 93–125.

Laippala, V., Kyröläinen, A. J., Kanerva, J., Luotolahti, J., & Ginter, F. (2017). Dependency profiles as a tool for big data analysis of linguistic constructions: a case study of emoticons. Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 8(2), 127–153.

Arnhold, A., & Kyröläinen, A. J. (2017). Modelling the interplay of multiple cues in prosodic focus marking. Laboratory Phonology, 8(1).

Kyröläinen, A., Porretta, V., & Järvikivi, J. (2017). Empirical approaches to cognitive linguistics: Analysing real-life data. In M. Luodonpää-Manni, E. Penttilä, & J. Viimaranta (Eds.) The role of morphological verb constructions in processing Russian reflexive verbs (pp. 261–289). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Huumo, T., Kyröläinen, A., Kanerva, J., Luotolahti, M. J., Salakoski, T., Ginter, F., Laippala, V. (2017). Empirical approaches to cognitive linguistics: Analysing real life data. In M. Luodonpää-Manni, E. Penttilä, & J. Viimaranta (Eds.) Distributional semantics of the partitive A argument construction in Finnish (pp. 25–48). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Al-Zanoon, N., Dambacher, M., and Kuperman, V. (2017). Evidence for a global oculomotor program in reading. Psychological Research, 81(4), 863–877.

Schmidtke, D. & Kuperman, V. (2017). Mass counts in World Englishes: A corpus linguistic study of noun countability in non-native varieties of English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 13(1), 135–164.

Warriner, A. B., Shore, D. I., Schmidt, L. A, Imbault, C. L., & Kuperman, V. (2017). Sliding into happiness: A new tool for measuring affective responses to words. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(1), 71–88.

2016

Jarema, G., Libben, G., and Kuperman, V. (Eds.) (2016). New questions for the next decade. The Mental Lexicon, 11:3.

Snefjella, B. and Kuperman, V. (2016). It’s all in the delivery: Context influences on word recognition. Cognition, 156, 135–146.

Schmidtke, D., Kuperman, V., Gagne, C., and Spalding, T. (2016). Competition between conceptual relations affects compound recognition: the role of entropy. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(2), 556–570.

Kuperman, V., Van Dyke, J. A., & Henry, R. (2016). Eye movement control in RAN and reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 20(2), 173–188.

Matsuki, K., Kuperman V., & Van Dyke, J. A. (2016). The Random Forests statistical technique: An examination of its value for the study of reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 20(1), 20–33.

2015

Falkauskas, K. and Kuperman, V. (2015). When experience meets language statistics: Individual variability in processing English compound words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 41(6), 1607–1627.

Warriner, A.B. and Kuperman, V. (2015). Affective biases in English are bidimensional. Cognition and Emotion, 29(7), 1147–1167.

Snefjella, B. and Kuperman V. (2015). Concreteness and psychological distance in natural language use. Psychological Science, 26(9), 1449–1460.

Kuperman, V. (2015). Virtual experiments in megastudies: a case study of language and emotion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(8), 1693–1710.

2014

Brysbaert, M, Warriner, A.B, and Kuperman, V. (2014). Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 904–911.

Kuperman, V., Estes, Z., Brysbaert, M., and Warriner, A.B. (2014). Emotion and language: Arousal and valence affect word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1065–1081.

2013

Warriner, A. B., Kuperman, V., and Brysbaert, M. (2013). Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 45(4), 1191–1207.

Kuperman, V. and Bertram, R. (2013). Moving spaces: Spelling alternation in English noun-noun compounds. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 939–966.

Kuperman, V. and Van Dyke, J.A. (2013). Reassessing word frequency as a determinant of word recognition for skilled and unskilled readers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(3), 802–823.

Kuperman, V. (2013). Accentuate the positive: Diagnostics of semantic access in English compounds. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4(203), 1–10.

Kuperman, V., Drieghe, D., Keuleers, E., and Brysbaert, M. (2013). How strongly do word reading times and lexical decision times correlate? Combining data from eye movement corpora and megastudies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 563–580.

Henry, R. and Kuperman, V. (2013). Semantic growth of morphological families in English. Psihologija, 46(4), 479–495.

Kuperman, V. (2013). Compound words, processing of. In: Encyclopedia of the Mind. Hal Pashler (ed.). pages 163–165. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Moed, D., Kuperman, V. and Kucerova, I. (2013). A psycholinguistic analysis of NP-movement in English. Proceedings of MOTH 1. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 23(1), 1–18.

2012

Tily, H. and Kuperman, V. (2012). Rational phonological lengthening in spoken Dutch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 3935–3940.

Kuperman, V., Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., and Brysbaert, M. (2012). Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30 thousand English words. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 978–990.

Kuperman, V. and Bresnan, J. (2012). The effects of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 588–611.

Kuperman, V. (2012). Vorteile der komplementären Verwendung von Blickbewegungsdaten und psychometrischen Daten [Benefits of the complementary use of eye-movement data and psychometric data]. Lernen und Lernstörungen, 1 (3), 211–213.

2011

Bertram, R., Kuperman, V., Hyona, J., and Baayen, R.H. (2011). The hyphen as a segmentation cue in compound processing: It’s getting better all the time. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52, 530–544.

Kuperman, V. and Van Dyke, J.A. (2011). Individual differences in visual comprehension of morphological complexity. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, and T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1643-1648). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, pages 1643–1648.

Kuperman, V. and Van Dyke, J.A. (2011). Effects of individual differences in verbal skills on eye-movement patterns during sentence reading. Journal of Memory & Language, 65, 45–73.

Zislin, J., Kuperman, V. and Durst. R. (2011). “Ego-dystonic” delusions as a predictor of dangerous behavior. Psychiatric Quarterly, 82, 113–120.

2010

Schnoebelen, T. and Kuperman, V. (2010). Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for linguistic research. Psihologija, 43(4), 441–464.

Munro, R., Bethard, S., Kuperman, V., Lai, V.T., Melnick, R., Potts, C., Schnoebelen, T. and Tily, H. (2010). Crowdsourcing and language studies: the new generation of linguistic data. Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, pages 122–130.

Kuperman, V., Dambacher, M., Nuthmann, A. and Kliegl, R. (2010). The effect of word position on eye-movements in sentence and paragraph reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(9), 1838–1857.

Kuperman, V., Bertram, R. & Baayen, R.H. (2010). Processing trade-offs in the reading of Dutch derived words. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 83–97.

Baayen, R.H., Kuperman, V., & Bertram, R. (2010). Frequency effects in compound processing. In: Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel (eds.). Cross-disciplinary issues in compounding, pages 257–270. Johns Benjamins: Amsterdam.