Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
DILBILIM ARASTIRMALARI, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.1-40, 2025 (Scopus)
The Visual World Paradigm (VWP) is one of the most widely used and informative experimental paradigms in psycholinguistic research for studying online word and sentence processing. Over the past three decades, since the first study using the VWP (Tanenhaus et al., 1995), a wealth of research has shown that eye movements can reveal much about the systematic and temporal relationship between fixations on visual information and online language processing. The present systematic review takes stock of the current state of VWP as an experimental paradigm, looking back over the past thirty years and outlining critical issues that should guide future research. In this paper, we attempt to provide a systematic overview of the role of language functions using the VWP in speech comprehension from a cross-linguistic perspective. Our findings contribute to the VWP literature by evaluating existing methodological approaches and outlining clear directions for future research. The review reveals although methodological sophistication has increased, especially through the adoption of time-sensitive analyses such as LMMs and GAMMs, a significant gap remains in linguistic diversity.