Victor Kuperman

Overview

Victor Kuperman is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages, Canada Research Chair in Psycholinguistics, and the Director of the Reading Lab at McMaster University. His research focuses on psycholinguistics and quantitative linguistics, eye-movement behaviour in reading, individual differences in word and sentence processing, and statistical and experimental methods in language research. Victor’s recent work on reading and acquiring second languages focuses on the difficulties faced by older adult learners of English. His research lab studies eye-tracking, behavioural studies, large-scale norming studies and quantitative analyses of ​writing and speech.

Affiliations

• Professor
• Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
• Professor, Linguistics and Languages, Faculty of Humanities
• Associate Member, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, Faculty of Science

Education

• BA, Linguistic and the English Language, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• MA, Library and Information Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen