The Virtual Words in the World 2023 conference will be held December 1 – 2, 2023. Welcoming remarks begin at 9:50 EST on December 1, 2023. Conference talks will be held via Zoom, and poster sessions will be hosted using gather.town. There will be no parallel sessions.
Download this schedule: WOW2023 Schedule
Download the abstract book: WOW2023 Abstracts
Friday, December 1, 2023
| 9:50 | Welcome! |
| Talks 1 10:00 – 10:45 | Cognitive control states modulated lexical competition effect during language production Sifan Zhang, Keyi Kang, Haoyun Zhang Associations between vocabulary and declarative memory abilities in early childhood: A meta-analysis Hannah R Fender, Phillip Hamrick A mouse can tell us how we solve analogical reasoning problems in L1 and L2 Miki Ikuta, Koji Miwa |
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| Talks 2 10:55 – 11:55 | Perceptual Span in Mongolian Text Reading Yaqian Bao Flankers’ Spatial Proximity Affects Foveal Word Recognition: Evidence from a Flanked-word Visual World Paradigm Stefania Antonia Kyriakidou, Laoura Ziaka, Bob McMurray, Dzan Zelihic, Kristin Simonsen, Athanassios Protopapas Reading in otro idioma: Predicting individual differences in skipping in English as L2 Diana Esteve Alguacil, Denis Drieghe, Manuel Perea, Bernhard Angele, Victor Kuperman Cross-Linguistic Variability in Eye-Movement Control: Comparing Landing Positions of Regressive and Progressive Saccades Laura Schwalm, Ralph Radach, Victor Kuperman |
| 11:55 – 13:00 | POSTER SESSION 1 – Poster Room 1 |
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| Talks 3 13:10 – 14:10 | Red Light, Green Light: The Role of the IFG and STG in Overt versus Covert Speech Production Dima NK Alsaigh A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Neuropsychological Tests Brette Lansue, Lori L Buchanan Neurophysiological characteristics of new words acquisition in children with language impairment Alexander Sizykh, Antonina Shaposhnikova, Anna Rebreikina Word discovery through incremental chunking: How children find words in natural and artificial languages Andrew Jessop, Julian Pine, Fernand Gobet |
| 14:10 – 15:15 | Poster Session 2 – Poster Room 2 |
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| Talks 4 15:25 – 16:25 | The Impact of Sociolinguistic Differences on Multilingual Background Measures: Validating Language Entropy Part 2 Michelle Yang, Antonio Iniesta, Anne Beatty-Martinez, Inbal Itzhak, Jason Gullifer, Debra Titone Generating and Revising Moral Decisions During First- and Second-Language Reading Esteban Hernandez-Rivera, Karla S Tarin, Alessia Kalogeris, Dan Chen, Debra Titone Context positivity facilitates L2 word learning: An eye tracking study Nadia Lana, Bryor Snefjella, Victor Kuperman The Role of Emotion in Abstract Word Processing: Evidence from Reading Aloud and Lexical Decision Catherine J Mason |
Saturday, December 2, 2023
| Talks 5 10:00 – 11:00 | Adaptation, Translation, and Validation of ‘Child Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire’ (Child LEAP-Q) in Kannada Megha K, Dr. Shivani Tiwari, Dr. Sunila John Does the contextual information in test items influence English morphological awareness measures’ psychometric properties? Anna Y Leung, Xiaoshu Wu, Xenia Schmalz Reading-related cognitive skills and family literacy environment mediate the relation between parents’ reading history and their children’s reading outcomes Xianglin Zhang, Hua Shu, Zhichao Xia, Min Wang N400 amplitude as an index of image integration into sentence contexts in adolescents Marina Norkina, Anna Rebreikina, Alexandra Berlin Khenis, Elena Semenova, Anastasia Streltsova, Tatiana Logvinenko |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Poster Session 3 – Poster Room 3 |
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| Talks 6 12:10 – 13:10 | Structural priming in Mandarin-English late bilinguals: The role of language direction and language proficiency Vera Xia, Johanne Paradis, Juhani Jarvikivi Long-lag lemma repetition priming in Estonian and Finnish text reading: evidence from the MECO corpus Kaidi Lõo (University of Tartu), Raymond Bertram, Victor Kuperman Parsing ambiguous trimorphemic words in sentence contexts: Evidence from RSVP Amanda Araujo White, Kyan Salehi, Roberto G de Almeida Morphological learning in an online language app: Evidence from Lingvist users Jordan Gallant |
| 13:10 – 14:15 | Poster Session 4 – Poster Room 4 |
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| Talks 7 14:25-15:25 | Unpacking the role of pronouns in children’s reading comprehension Emilie Courteau, Guillaume Loignon, Hélène Deacon Prosodic Sensitivity and Reading in Bilingual Children Krystina Raymond, Menghsun Lee, Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher, Hélène Deacon, Jeffrey Steele, Becky Chen The Effect of Vowelization on Visual Word Recognition in Arabic Maram Alharbi, Jeffrey Witzel, Naoko Witzel Symbols to Shapes Processing Ghadir Nassereddine |
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Poster Sessions
Poster sessions will be organized in gather.town. Posters will be displayed in designated poster rooms, with authors available to talk during their scheduled time. You can think of this as a ‘normal’ poster session – like the ones we have at in-person conferences -just in a virtual space this time. These sessions are not chaired. When you visit a poster, you will be able to see and hear the presenter, and they will be able to answer your questions or walk you through their study. You can control whether your video and microphone are on.
Here’s a brief tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdRi0CPohYA
| Poster Session 1 | |
| Poster Room 1 Friday 11:55 – 13:00 | 01. Beyond the Bread: Uncovering the Mechanisms of Sandwich Priming in Word Recognition Maria Fernández-López, Steve Lupker, Pablo Gomez, Melanie Labusch, Colin J Davis, Manuel 02. Reliability of Visual and Auditory Processing Tasks in Dyslexia Research Tatiana Logvinenko, Xenia Schmalz, 03. Conceptual transfer in motion lexicalization by L1-Portuguese/FL-English bilinguals Renan C Ferreira 04. How words can guide your eyes: Increasing engagement with art through audio-guided visual search Lea A Müller Karoza, Naomi Vingron, Nancy Azevedo, Aaron Johnson, Melissa Vo, Eva Kehayia 05. KNIVE-knives: Inflection and Lexical Cloning John A Hotson 06. L1 ≠ L2 = L3: Differential social normativity in first vs later-acquired languages Michał B. Paradowski, Marta Gawinkowska, 07. The effect of idiomatic co-occurrence on lexical networks Simone A Sprenger, Sara Beck, Andrea Weber 08. Leveraging Social Network Data to Ground Multilingual Background Measures: Validating Entropy Part 1 Antonio Iniesta, Michelle Yang, Anne Beatty-Martinez, Inbal Itzhak, Jason Gullifer, Debra Titone 09. The role of orthography and phonology during L1 vs. L2 typewritten production Merel Muylle, Gonia Jarema Arvanitakis 10. Context modulates word integration strategies in ambiguous idioms Marta Vergara, Teresa Civera, Eva E. Gutierrez-Sigut 11. Semantic Intercorrelation Facilitate the Effect of Semantic Richness on Language Production Keyi Kang, Sifan Zhang, Haoyun Zhang 12. Deciphering the Intricacies of (Misspelled) Logotype Identification via Event-Related Potentials Melanie Labusch, Manuel Perea, Francisco Rocabado, Maria Fernández-López, Ana Marcet, Marta Vergara 13. ‘Die laughing’ as a Discourse Marker of Sarcasm: Its Uses in Social Media Corpus During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Taiwan Yan-ping Lai, Yu-Che Yen, Siaw-Fong Chung 14. The role of sublexical and lexical skills in children learning to read in a transparent orthography. Implications for reading instruction Joana Acha, Gorka Ibaibarriaga, Manuel Perea 15. Thermal and Metaphorical Meanings: Analysing Temperature Adjectives in European Portuguese Yichang Ge, Fátima Silva, Oliveira Fátima 16. An ontology of democracy: A cognitive linguistic analysis Ilona Brovarska 17. Syllabification in Hindi: An Intuitive mental process Rita Mathur 18. Affix substitution in Indonesian: A study of functional load Karlina Denistia, Harald Baayen |
| Poster Session 2 | |
| Poster Room 2 Friday 14:10 – 15:15 | 01. Does word rotation influence access to a word meaning? Hussein Mehmet, Teresa Civera, Eva E. Gutierrez-Sigut, Marta Vergara 02. NLP and Education: using semantic similarity to evaluate filled gaps in a large scale cloze test in classroom Raquel M K Freitag, Julian Tejada, Túlio S Gois, Flávia Freitas 03. Are transposed-letter effects due to perceptual noise? Inka Romero-Ortells Labrada, Ana Marcet Herranz, Pablo Gómez, Manuel Perea 04. How does a Person’s L1 Writing Script Impact L2 Reading in a Same or Different Script? Nama Mansuri, Antonio Iniesta, Esteban Hernandez-Rivera, Pauline Palma, Debra Titone 05. Pre-lexical morphological parsing of ambiguous roots in context: Evidence from a cross-modal task Cedric Le Bouar, Roberto G de Almeida 06. Gradual emergence over multiple trials suggests the mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of learned expectations Jessie Nixon, Jacolien van Rij 07. A study on the processing of verbal inflection of tense and agreement in native Spanish speakers with aphasia. Camila Stecher, Virginia Jaichenco, María Elina Sánchez 08. Cultural Immersion and Pragmatic Proficiency: A Study of Language Acquisition in Spain Constanza Uribe Banda 09. Polish and Ukrainian Nouns in the Light of a Distributive Analysis Paula Orzechowska, Inna Stupak, Harald Baayen 10. Examining the Impact of First Names in Everyday Interactions Carolyn Tran 11. Statistical Learning of a Tonal Language in Multilinguals, Bilinguals and Monolinguals Yasmine Tachakourt 12. Moving Towards an Understanding of the Role of the Inferior Fronto-Occipital Fasciculus in Language Processing Princess O Eze 13. The role of LexiaCore5 Reading in a bilingual context: developing phonological awareness skills in English (L2) Marion Costa Cruz, Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves 14. How does income inequity and culture influence oral language and literacy practices in the Black communities of Montreal? Tanya Matthews 15. A Cognitive linguistics Study of the Feminine Meanings Embedded in the Construction of Chinese words with the Radical “女” with Dichotomies Pu Meng 16. Do semantic primes influence the motor execution of keystrokes during the typing of words? Ajay Mangat, Carolina Mendes, Rusna Panesar, Alex Taikh 17. Lexical decision and eye-tracker behavior in Brazilian Portuguese blend processing Gustavo Estivalet, José Ferrari Neto, Rafael Minussi, Alina Villalva |
| Poster Session 3 | |
| Poster Room 3 Saturday 11:00 – 12:00 | 01. Cross-Language Similarities In Japanese Visual Word Recognition: A Chronometric Study With Chinese-English-Japanese Trilinguals Jinyun Sun 02. Revisiting the orthographic prediction error for a better understanding of efficient visual word recognition Wanlu Fu, Benjamin Gagl 03. A binary-tree approach to generating imaginary Chinese characters Yixia Wang, Rastislav Hronsky, Emmanuel Keuleers 04. Language evolution within simulated multilingual societies: Evidence from the iterated learning paradigm Chaimaa El Mouslih, Vegas Hodgins, Pauline Palma, Debra Titone 05. How do Turkish readers decide whether to skip parafoveal short and high-frequency words? Zeynep G Ozkan, Francisco Rocabado, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Bernhard Angele 06. Verb aspect processing in monolingual and bilingual heritage speakers of Turkish Özce Özceçelik, Nisa Büyükyıldırım, Ulaş Aşkın, Serkan Uygun, Onur Özsoy 07. Learning to Read Connections – Sensitivity to Collocation Frequency and its Relation to Vocabulary Size and Reading Comprehension Alexandra M A Schmitterer, Caterina Gawrilow, Claudia Friedrich 08. Cross-linguistic differences in recognition memory: Encoding of event roles in Japanese and English Jiashen Qu, Koji Miwa 09. The Emotional Impact of Lexical Arousal on Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning Zahra Zalzadeh, Fatemeh Nemati, Mehdi Purmohammad 10. The influence of word Frequency, length, and morphological structure on a lexical decision task Carina G. Pinto 11. Where The U-Shape Gone? Post Covid-19 Change In The Relationship Of Emotional Valence And Arousal Of Words Milica Popović Stijačić, Ksenija Mišić, Dušica Filipović Đurđević 12. Demonstratives, deixis, and relationality: the cognitive pragmatics of augmenting Poulami Chakraborti 13. Psycholinguistic Determinants of Timed Object Naming in Thai Benjamin Clarke 14. Anthropomorphiс Properties Of Language Consciousness Ekaterina A Redkozubova 15. Eye-movement patterns during paragraph reading in adolescents with different reading-related skills Alexandara A Berlin Khenis, Marina Norkina, Elena Semenova, Anastasia Streltsova, Tatiana Logvinenko 16. Exploring the limits of language non-selectivity: How do multilinguals process non-native cognates and interlingual homographs? Lisan Broekhuis, Dominiek Sandra, Sarah Bernolet 17. One form, two meanings? The semantics of generic and specific role nouns in German Dominic Schmitz 18. Examining the electrophysiological signature of interletter spacing on visual word recognition: An ERP study Teresa Civera, Marta Vergara, Manuel Perea |
| Poster Session 4 | |
| Poster Room 4 Saturday 13:10 – 14:15 | 01. When things go missing: Referent absence in noun cross situational word learning Christine S Yue, Sandy LaTourrette, Charles Yang, John Trueswell 02. Eye Tracking of Bilingual Irony Processing: Compliments versus Criticisms Vegas Hodgins, Mehrgol Tiv, Chaimaa El Mouslih, Karla S Tarin, Antonio Iniesta, Debra Titone 03. Modelling Mandarin Loanword Adaptation of English Null-Onset Personal Names Rasmit Devkota 04. Words in Second-Language Speech Accommodation in Interactive Conversational Settings Ana Bueno, Joshua Faircloth, Erica Kushner, Christiane Noriega, Charlotte Charek, Bernard Ocansey, Stephanie Onwe, Kathrin Rothermich, Susan C Bobb 05. Abstract and concrete word-learning from context in children Allison Granger, Layla Unger, Vladimir Sloutsky 06. Impact of Language attitudes on Self-Evaluative judgements of Language Experience Esteban Hernandez-Rivera, Alessia Kalogeris, Mehrgol Tiv, Debra Titone, 07. Dresses and ties: the effect of grammatical gender and semantic bias on object concepts Noelia A Stetie, Míriam Aguilar, Camila Martínez Rebolledo, José Antonio Hinojosa, Gabriela Zunino 08. The role of morphology in novel word learning: A Registered Report Olga Solaja, Davide Crepaldi 09. Axiologic Conceptualization Of Violence In Media Discourse Vadym O Shevchenko, Iryna Zmiiova 10. Script mixing in social media: processing costs with potential benefits Janessa Tam, Philip Monahan, Rena Helms-Park 11. Politics and personality modulates processing of singular-‘they’ pronouns: Evidence from self-paced reading and acceptability ratings Hannah Lam, Juhani Jarvikivi 12. How does math-specific language experience impact word problem-solving in bilingual adults? Karla S Tarin, Esteban Hernandez-Rivera, Dan Chen, Michelle Jang, Gigi Luk, Debra Titone 13. Attraction Effects in the Processing of Long-distance Chinese Classifiers: An eye-tracking study Xiaoyu Liu, Nayoung Kwon 14. The Influence of a Password’s Linguistic Properties on its Typing Output Keira Gow, Alex Taikh 15. When words collide: Compound recognition via hemifield processing Cassandra E Didical, Roberto G de Almeida 16. Foreign-origin words and their native equivalents in the Turkish Lexicon: An investigation of relative frequencies and semantic relatedness Christian Agregan, Yasin Tuna Kurşunlu, Urjashi Laha, Elif Sarı, Simge Tekgül, Selçuk Emre Ergüt, Gözde Mercan |