Welcome to the Words in the World International Conference! All times are in Eastern Time (GMT -4). Jump to Day 2 or Day 3.
October 16, 2020
| 9:50 | Opening Remarks | ||
| Session A | Session B | Session C | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Form priming effects for mirror words Huilan Yang & Nick Reid | Lexical diversity in a morphologically rich south Asian language: a psycholinguistic analysis of a child-directed print corpus Sanjana Nagendra, Deekshitha Kotian, Megha K, Gideon Arulmani, Sunila John, Shivani Tiwari, Katrina Dulay & Sonali Nag | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Does vowel harmony play a role in the initial moments of printed word recognition? Evidence from masked priming in Finnish Manuel Perea, Jukka Hyönä & Ana Marcet | A corpus-based analysis of Filipino verbs in children’s books Katrina May Dulay& Sonali Nag | Lexical access to morphologically complex words during parafoveal processing Anastasiia Udodenko, Natalia Slioussar & Svetlana Alexeeva |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Is Montréal Montreal? Visual similarity effects with accented vowels Ana Baciero, Manuel Perea & Ana Marcet | English loan words in Filipino children’s literature: Implications for cross-linguistic literacy development Portia Padilla, Dina Ocampo, Kathrina Lorraine Lucasan & Sonali Nag | Representation of Modern Greek derivational morphology: Semantic transparency effects in cross-modal priming Nikolaos Ntagkas & Despina Papadopoulou |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Auditory processing of English semantically transparent and opaque compound words Ava Creemers | MULTILEXICON: A Psycholinguistic Database Lexicon from Multiple Languages Maylton Fernandes, Gustavo Estivalet & Márcio Leitão | Word taxonomy in vocabulary knowledge assessment task Tammi Sabag-Shushan & Tami Katzir |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | On aspect and affixes, morphological priming in Russian verbs Anastasia Chuprina | Neural-network modeling of morphological processing dynamics in visual word recognition Patience Stevens & David Plaut | Do overweight children respond faster to food-related words? Josefina Tárrega Vacas, Manuel Perea Lara & Ana García-Blanco |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | BREAK | ||
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Farewell to relative frequency? A closer look at frequency effects on the acoustic duration of English derivatives Simon David Stein & Ingo Plag | Implementation of Linear Discriminative Learning in Julia Xuefeng Luo, Yu-Ying Chuang & Harald Baayen | Swearwords in the bilingual brain: Why they’re not all the same Michał B. Paradowski & Marta Gawinkowska |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Inflectional affixes in the mental lexicon: processing of Russian noun case forms Daria Chernova, Kirill Bursov, Svetlana Alexeeva & Natalia Slioussar | Behavioral vs. Computational: Comparing Semantic Transparency Measures on French Prefix Verbs Irene Fally & Eva Smolka | Individual Differences in the Perception of Foreign-Accented Irony Veranika Puhacheuskaya & Juhani Järvikivi |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | Relative frequency effects in morphological processing Seung Ah Kwak, Rongchao Tang & Naoko Witzel | Meaning, Megastudies, and Missing Data Bryor Snefjella& Idan Blank | Gender benders: The effects of individual differences in Political Views and Disgust Sensitivity on gender stereotype processing Stephanie Hammond-Thrasher, Kaidi Loo & Juhani Jarvikivi |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | Lexical access and representation of number in inflected nouns in Brazilian Portuguese Jefferson Alves da Rocha, José Ferrari Neto & Gustavo Lopez Estivalet | Just how weird is WEIRD literacy and numeracy? A comparative study of 32 countries Heather Wild, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen & Victor Kuperman | CoViDisgust: Language Comprehension at the Intersection of a Global Pandemic and Individual Disgust Sensitivity Isabell Hubert Lyall, Veranika Puhacheuskaya & Juhani Järvikivi |
| 12:35 – 13:45 | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| 13:45 – 14:00 | The chicken or the egg? The timeline for lexical and semantic effects in derived word recognition using simultaneous recording of EEG and eye-tracking Gaisha Oralova, Rober Boshra, Daniel Schmidtke, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, John Connolly & Victor Kuperman | The Impact of Programming Fluency on Natural Language Processing Vegas Hodgins, Jay Jennings & Olessia Jouravlev | Compensation for poor character learning: Intact visual and phonetic strategies among Chinese children with dyslexia Yixun Li, Yi Hui & Hong Li |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | What a difference a prefix makes Julia Roberta Carden, Juan Segui & Virginia Jaichenco | Programming in the Brain: Syntactic and Semantic Processing of Language vs. Source Code Alex Rivard & Olessia Jouravlev | Effects of Year of Study on Reading Skills for L1 and L2 Speakers of English Sean McCarron & Victor Kuperman |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Morphological decomposition in the processing of novel English compound words: Is it automatic? Sarah Macdonald, Gary Libben & Sidney Segalowitz | Processing synthetic and human speech in auditory masked priming tasks Shiloh Drake & Erin Liffiton | A head start in reading ability: the effect of early phonological awareness on change in ESL passage reading behaviour and reading habits Daniel Schmidtke, Sadaf Rahmanian & Anna Moro |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Morphological priming during natural reading of long texts Melda Coskun & Victor Kuperman | Visuospatial Working Memory of Serial Order in Humans and Chimpanzees: A Possible Influence of Language on Recall Nadine Charanek | Word Finders: Cognitive Abilities in Scrabble Expert Players Dolores Zamora, Federico Soriano & Macarena Martínez-Cuitiño |
| 14:45 – 15:05 | BREAK | ||
| 15:05 – 16:15 | WOW Event |
October 17, 2020
| Session A | Session B | Session C | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Phonological similarity between words identifies psychotypological differences in lexical access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese Karl Neergaard, Eilien Waegemaekers, James Britton & Chu-Ren Huang | Why is metaphor difficult for language learners? Metaphor processing in a second language Miki Ikuta & Koji Miwa | Reading and Writing in a Diglossic Context: A Multifaceted Perspective Aula Khatteb Abu-Liel, Brach Nir & Zohar Eviatar |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Bimodal processing of spoken words: On orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals Stefanie Türk & Ulrike Domahs | Processing Multi-Words Expressions Wanyin Li | The mental representations of a bi-scriptal lexicon: Evidence from native and heritage speakers of Korean Yoolim Kim |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Syntactic context effects on spoken word recognition Basma Elkhafif | Age-related Changes in Idiom Processing: The Role of Idiom Decomposability Aylin Dincer & Eva Smolka | Reading in Native Language in Arabic and Hebrew: an eye movement study Hend Lahoud, Zohar Eviatar & Hamutal Kreiner |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Previewing rotations: How resilient are letter detectors to rotations while reading? María Fernández-López, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger & Manuel Perea | Competitive Neighbors: Lexical Mechanisms Describing Children’s Decisions About Thematic Relations Alexandra Schmitterer & Garvin Brod | The paradox of persistent spelling errors on regularly inflected verb homophones. Do different social groups suffer the same effect of homophone dominance? Hanne Surkyn, Reinhild Vandekerckhove & Dominiek Sandra |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Parafoveal syntactic processing during reading: The case of gender-specific German articles Laura Schwalm & Ralph Radach | How do cognitive reserve and semantic knowledge interplay in name retrieval? Sonia Montemurro, Martina Serena, Veronica Pucci, Maria Montefinese, Sara Mondini & Carlo Semenza | Tracking the pace of reading with finger movements Vito Pirrelli, Claudia Cappa, Davide Crepaldi, Viola Del Pinto, Marcello Ferro, Sara Giulivi, Claudia Marzi, Andrea Nadalini & Loukia Taxitari |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | BREAK | ||
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Investigating variability in morphological processing with Bayesian distributional models Laura Anna Ciaccio & João Veríssimo | The eye/ear of the needle – Cross-linguistic differences in body part extensions Annika Tjuka | Dissociating syllable and morpheme priming effects in lexical access Julia Schwarz, Mirjana Bozic & Brechtje Post |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Exploring cognitive processing of complex words in English Georgia Knell & Christina Manouilidou | Awakening metaphors: Conventional metaphors can be reinterpreted as novel in real time Laura Pissani & Roberto G. de Almeida | The patterns of similarity avoidance in the Arabic triconsonantal root Ali Idrissi, Rawdha Al-Hajri & Yousri Marzouki |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | Effects of word class and inflectional uncertainty on fine phonetic detail of word-final German Fabian Tomaschek | Figurative Language Pathways in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study Mohammad Ghasoub, Jacqueline Cummine & Brea Chouinard | Grammatical factors in lexical processing: The allomorphic predictor Daniil Bondarenko, Onur Özsoy & Itamar Kastner |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | Lexical Restructuring Stimulates Phonological Awareness Among Emerging English – French Bilingual Children’s Literacy Klaudia Krenca, Eliane Segers, Ludo Verhoeven, Jeffrey Steele, Sharry Shakory & Xi Chen | Lexical storage of multiword sequences: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese Ana Paula Huback | Non-binary language in Spanish: preliminary results of an acceptability judgments task Gabriela Mariel Zunino & Noelia Ayelén Stetie |
| 12:35 – 13:45 | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Sandhi versus non-sandhi words in the L3 acquisition of Chinese Jie Deng | Phonological patterns distinguish words for actions and things in typologically diverse languages Pablo Contreras Kallens & Morten H. Christiansen | No masked translation priming in immigrant Vietnamese-English bilinguals Juliet Huynh & Naoko Witzel |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Representations of Abstract and Concrete Words in a Second Language Katherine Kerschen, Carrie Jackson & Zofia Wodniecka | Do Chinese-English Bilingual Adults Activate Phonology Comparably When Reading in their L1 Chinese vs. their L2 English? Yilan Lin, Yunyu Liang, Lixue Cheng, Junyan Wei & Debra Titone | The influence of translation ambiguity on Chinese-English bilinguals’ reading in Chinese Xuan Pan, Debra Jared & Zian Chi |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Does grain size of L1 orthography relate to self-rated L2 reading and writing ability? Avleen K. Mokha, Pauline Palma, Jason Gullifer, Constance Imbault, Victor Kuperman & Debra Titone | An ERP examination of the relationship between orthography and phonology during word processing Osama Chattha & Sidney J. Segalowitz | Bilingualism Influences Children’s Word Frequency Effects During Reading: Evidence from Eye-Tracking Astrid Portillo, Veronica Whitford & Marc Joanisse |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | A behavioural and electrophysiological investigation of novel word learning Maria Korochkina, Lyndsey Nickels & Audrey Bürki | Typing converts convert: The role of phonological stress in typed production. Jordan Gallant & Gary Libben | Verbal working memory as a factor in processing auditory L2 sentences Shiloh Drake & Essa Gorbi |
| 14:45 – 15:05 | BREAK | ||
| 15:05 – 16:15 | WOW Event |
October 18, 2020
| Session A | Session B | Session C | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Avoidance of the English Passive Construction among L1 Chinese Learners Yang Wang & Nattama Pongpairoj | Positional variability of articulatory gestures: Effects of practice and linguistic proficiency Fabian Tomaschek, Denis Arnold, Konstantin Sering, Benjamin V. Tucker, Jacolien van Rij & Michael Ramscar | Emergence of paradigmatic relations in bilingual children: Evidence from word association task Rita Mathur |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Differential sensitivity to L2 morphological violations in spoken versus written comprehension in L1 Mandarin learners of English Qingyuan Gardner, Holly Branigan & Vasiliki Chondrogianni | Co-articulation between stem vowels and suffixes: semantics all the way down Motoki Saito, Fabian Tomaschek & Harald Baayen | Frequency and paradigmatic effects in Estonian spontaneous speech Kaidi Lõo, Fabian Tomaschek, Pärtel Lippus & Benjamin V. Tucker |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Measuring Word-to-Text Integration and its Impact on Reading Comprehension Development in English as a Second Language Mulder, van de Ven, Segers, Krepel, de Bree, de Jong & Verhoeven | Listeners prefer frequency over subphonemic detail – eye tracking evidence from a homophone disambiguation task Katharina Sternke | Paradigmatic effects on the production of Dutch variable plurals Tim Zee, Louis ten Bosch, Ingo Plag, Mirjam Ernestus |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Revisiting the L2 Disadvantage: Language Mode Effects as a Result of Task Order Tom Offrede, Jacolien van Rij & Simone Sprenger | The role of acoustic and contextual cues for lexical disambiguation in French Maria del Mar Cordero Rull, Damien Vistoli, Stéphane Pota, Elsa Spinelli & Fanny Meunier | Learning Kinyarwanda verbal Paradigms without Morphemes Ruben van de Vijver & Emmanuel Uwambayinema |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Processing verb argument structure complexity in Basque-Spanish bilinguals Pavlina Heinzova, Simona Mancini & Manuel Carreiras | Tonal (ir)regularity and word frequency in Mandarin bisyllabic compounds Jingwen Li, Yu-Ying Chuang & Harald Baayen | Predicting Maltese Plural Patterns with Naive Discriminative Learning Jessica Nieder, Ruben van de Vijver & Fabian Tomaschek |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | BREAK | ||
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Noun bias among adolescents: a comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals. Alessandra Milano & Adriana Hanulíková | Morphological strengthening of phonological performance in child speech Anastasia Chuprina | Learning concrete and abstract novel words in emotional contexts: Evidence from incidental vocabulary learning Nadia Lana & Victor Kuperman |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Absolutely Necessary: the Meaning of Deontic Modal Adjectives in Discourse Context Maryam Rajestari & Simon Dobnik | Durational differences of homophonous suffixes emerge from the lexicon: Evidence from nonce words Dominic Schmitz, Ingo Plag & Dinah Baer-Henney | The Effect of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Novel Word Acquisition: Paradigm Development Anna Zhuravleva, Ekaterina Stupina & Svetlana Malyutina |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | An Eye-tracking Study of Complement Coercion in Mandarin Chinese Ye Ma, Brian Buccola, Zinan Wang, Aline Godfroid, Shannon Cousins & Alan Beretta | Lexical processing of consonants and vowels: Mandarin learners of English Scott James Perry, Matthew C. Kelley, Gabriela Holko & Benjamin V. Tucker | The relationship between infants’ preference for and learning from adult-directed speech Sarah Eiteljoerge, Vivien Outters, Jana Schildknecht & Nivedita Mani |
| 12:20 – 12:35 | Coreference preferences for interpersonal verbs: Structural, semantic, and individual differences factors Dalia Cristerna Roman, Evangelia Daskalaki & Juhani Järvikivi | Processing of Tonal Information in L1 and L2 Silent Reading Rongchao Tang, Naoko Witzel, Xiaomei Qiao & Jia Chen | Novel word learning in adult native and non-native speakers: The role of phonology, homophony, visual competition, and eyes-shut rest Wenfu Bao, Juhani Järvikivi & Anja Arnhold |
| 12:35 – 13:45 | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Gender-agreement errors on adjectives and determiners elicit different ERP patterns in French Ariane Brucher, Émilie Courteau, Karsten Steinhauer, Phaedra Royle | The processing of noun-noun metaphors Juana Park, Christina Gagné & Thomas Spalding | Factors effecting the Influence of Statistical Learning on Reading Comprehension Kelly Nisbet, Noam Siegelman & Victor Kuperman |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | The effect of Information structure on subjecthood and linear order in German pronoun resolution Regina Hert, Juhani Järvikivi & Anja Arnhold | Conceptualizing semantic transparency in English compound words through exploratory factor analysis Leah Auch, Christina L. Gagné & Thomas L. Spalding | Phonological Awareness and Its Relationship to Reading and Spelling among Chinese-English Bilingual College Students Nan Zhang, Liuan Yang, Baoguo Chen & Min Wang |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Processing of verbal inflection in subjects with agrammatic aphasia: a case study. Camila Stecher, María Elina Sánchez & Virginia Jaichenco | Accessing lexical representations of constituents while typing compound words. Alexander Taikh, Christina Gagné & Thomas Spalding | The Units of Gating: A Methodological Investigation on Spoken-Word Recognition Caitlyn Antal, Roberto G. de Almeida and Jared Sharp |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Processing of Inferences in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) Hannah James, Madison Mountford, Courtenay Hnatyshyn, Roxana-Maria Barbu & Olessia Jouravlev | Primed naming of Persian compound words: Evidence from a reaction time experiment Narcisse Torshizi & Elisabet Service | Make Room in the Lexicon: Eye Movements Reveal Emoji and Text Interdependence Eliza Barach, Laurie Beth Feldman & Heather Sheridan |
| 14:45 – 15:05 | BREAK | ||
| 15:05 – 16:15 | WOW Event |