Words in the World 2021 will be held November 26 – 27, 2021, between 9:45 – 16:00 EST (Montreal time). Welcoming remarks begin at 9:45 EST on November 26. Conference talks will be held via Zoom, and poster sessions will be hosted using gather.town. There will be no parallel sessions.
Download the abstracts: WOW2021 Abstract Book
Friday, November 26
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Welcome |
| Talks 1 10:00 – 10:35 Chair: Nancy Azevedo, McGill University | Naomi Vingron, Nancy Azevedo, Gonia Jarema, Joyce Fung, Gianluca Sorrento, Sarah Lee, Anouk Lamontagne, Ruthann Atchley, Paul Atchley, Juhani Järvikivi, Debra Titone, Gary Libben and Eva Kehayia The impact of visual distraction on lexicality judgements in single and multitask settings Alexia Antzaka and Marie Lallier Contribution of alpha-rate visual attentional tracking to reading acquisition Daniil Gnetov, Noam Siegelman, Sascha Schroeder and Victor Kuperman Word length, frequency, and predictability effects in eye-movements in reading: systematic comparison of 12 languages |
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| Talks 2 10:45 – 11:45 Chair: John Gamboa, TU Kaiserslautern | Kaidi Lõo, Pärtel Lippus, Fabian Tomaschek and Benjamin Tucker Morphological effects in the comprehension of Estonian spontaneous speech Dominic Schmitz, Marie Engemann, Ingo Plag and Dinah Baer-Henney Subtle morpho-phonetic differences in English stems and word-final /s/ influence listeners’ comprehension Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, Masoumeh Moradipour-Tari, Peter Uhrig and R. Harald Baayen. Inflectional analogies with word embeddings: there is more than the average Mohen Zhang, Nicola Dawson and Kate Nation Effects of suffix familiarity and reading ability on morphological processing Katherine J. Hill and Laura M. Gonnerman Implicit and explicit morphology measures: Toward a unified approach to morphological awareness |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | POSTER SESSION 1 – Poster Room 1 |
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| Talks 3 12:45 – 13:45 Chair: Regina Hert, University of Alberta | Merel Muylle, Eva Van Assche and Robert Hartsuiker Comparing the cognate effect in spoken and written L2 word production Nadine Charanek, Vegas Hodgins and Olessia Jouravlev How prevalent are bilingual costs during native (L1) speech production? Yanran Chen and Kathleen Eberhard The role of lexical stress in spoken-word recognition – evidence from English monolinguals and Chinese-English bilinguals Nick Reid, Huilan Yang and Yuru Mei Conceptual Metaphor activation in Chinese-English bilinguals Kaja Gregorc and Theo Marinis The role of input variability in vocabulary learning in proficient L2 learners |
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| 14:00 – 14:45 | POSTER SESSION 2 – Poster Room 2 |
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| Talks 4 15:00 – 15:50 Chair: Daniil Gnetov, McMaster University | Patience Stevens and David C. Plaut Simulating dynamics of morphological processing in visual word recognition with a neural network model Jonathan Geary Orthographic neighborhood density effects in a Maltese visual lexical decision megastudy Shaina Benjamin and Daniel Schmidtke Conceptual combination during novel and existing compound word reading: a self-paced reading study Evonne Syed How do we learn the meanings of words? Investigating semantically related vs. unrelated novel word learning |
Saturday, November 27
| Talks 5 10:00 – 10:35 Chair: Bryor Snefjella, UCLA | Georgia Roumpea, Katarina Marjanovič, Tjaša Mlinarič, Zvezdan Pirtošek, Jure Bon and Christina Manouilidou Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation treatment improves language performance in different stages of Alzheimer’s disease María Fernández-López, Manuel Perea and Marta Vergara-Martínez Are letter detectors resilient to rotations during word recognition? A masked priming ERP investigation Juliana Novo Gomes, Marije Soto, Aniela Improta França, Julia Cataldo and Aline Gesualdi Manhães Comparing ERP and the Divided Visual Field paradigm to explore Hemispheric Specialization as a Predictive and Descriptive Tool for grapheme and word processing |
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| 10:45 – 11:45 | TRAINING WORKSHOP Shanley Allen Scientific Writing (Part 1): Developing a storyline |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | POSTER SESSION 3 – Poster Room 3 |
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| Talks 6 12:45 – 13:45 Chair: Maria Heitmeier, University of Tübingen | Jessica Nieder, Fabian Tomaschek and Ruben van de Vijver The process behind production: Inflection of Maltese pseudo words is based on discriminative learning Daria Gvozdeva, John Cristian Borges Gamboa, Juhani Järvikivi and Shanley E. M. Allen How does context affect the perceived difficulty of long nominal compounds? Fernanda Marabelly de Oliveira Veras and Gustavo Lopez Estivalet Deriving word Portuguese semantic variables from English metrics Laura Schwalm and Ralph Radach Desirable difficulty in reading- the curious case of Sans Forgetica Elizaveta Kovalenko and Daria Chernova The Robustness of Graphic Representation of a Word in the Mental Lexicon: an Experimental Study with Reference to French |
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| Talks 7 14:00 – 15:00 Chair: Naomi Vingron, McGill University | Ana Baciero, Pablo Gomez, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Manuel Perea Letter similarity effects in braille word recognition Annika Tjuka, Robert Forkel and Johann-Mattis List Comparing word properties across languages: A case study on ratings for arousal and valence Roya Khalili, Eva Kehayia and Marc Roig Can exercise improve language functions in older adults? Evidence from a Scoping Review Jordan Gallant and Gary Libben Psycholinguistic perspectives on power and positivity in Canadian parliament Kasandra Calkins, Jiseung Kim, Veranika Puhacheuskaya and Juhani Järvikivi Labels speak volumes: the role of intergroup membership in accent perception |
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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 used to 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 11:45 – 12:30 | 01. Narissa Byers, Veronica Whitford, Clarice Yeen and Sarah MacIssac An Investigation of the Relationship between Reading Abilities and Schizotypal Traits in a Neurotypical Adult Sample 02. Farah Almohammed, Tala Al Otaibi, Hessa Alraqbani and Juana Park. Is the past on the right for Arabic speakers? 03. Tami Sabag Shushan and Tami Katzir The Contribution of Emotion Vocabulary to Reading Comprehension Processes at the Text and the Task Level 04. Aysegul Ozkan, Bilal Kırkıcı and Cengiz Acarturk Phonological Mediation in Reading: A Theoretical Framework 05. Sangyub Kim, Satoru Saito and Kichun Nam Syllabic constraint effect on the serial order control revealed by Korean non-word speech production 06. Joonwoo Kim and Kichun Nam Morpho-semantic analysis of morphologically complex Korean words 07. Christina Manouilidou, Michaela Nerantzini, Katarina Marjanovič, Georgia Roumpea, Zvezdan Pirtošek and Jure Bon Sentence comprehension improvement in early Alzheimer’s disease as a result of transcranial magnetic stimulation coupled with behavioral intervention. 08. Maria Heitmeier, Yu-Ying Chuang and R. Harald Baayen Modeling German nonword plural productions with Linear Discriminative Learning 09. Nancy Azevedo, Gonia Jarema, Christine Alary Gauvreau, Guylaine Le Dorze, Stéfanie Beaulieu, Marc Yvon, Christel Beaujard and Eva Kehayia What do people with aphasia and their family members think of communication aids? Focus group findings on users’ experiences 10. Elena Pozdnyakova Cognitive-pragmatic study of inferences in ad hoc meaning creativity task 11. Julia Carden, Camila Stecher and Virginia Jaichenco Category-based licensing in complex word recognition 12. Rita Mathur Cognitive Processes in the Acquisition of English as a Second Language by College Students 13. Yousri Marzouki, ِِafra Al Marri and Ali Idrissi Morphological Family Size in Arabic |
| Poster Session 2 | |
| Poster Room 2 Friday 14:00 – 14:45 | 01. Alexander Taikh, Christina Gagne and Thomas Spalding Influence of morphological information on letter position coding. 02. Gabriela Mariel Zunino (Un)known semantic relations in Spanish: how syntax may condition the comprehension? 03. Taylor Melvie, Alexandre Taikh, Christina Gagné and Thomas Spalding The effects of masked pseudo-compound and compound words on constituent processing 04. Juliet Huynh and Naoko Witzel Translation priming in Vietnamese heritage language speakers: The role of language dominance 05. Melanie Labusch, Stéphanie Massol, Ana Marcet and Manuel Perea Are goats chèvres, chévres, chēvres, or chevres? – Cracking the orthographic code of diacritical vowels 06. Zhiyi Wu Native Processing of Mandarin Separable Compounds: An Anti-frequency Effect in Visual Lexical Decision? 07. Daniel Schmidtke, Sadaf Rahmanian and Anna Moro Reading experience drives L2 reading development: a longitudinal study of EAL reading habits 08. Patience Stevens and David C. Plaut Orthographic-semantic consistency as a measure of graded morphological information 09. Owen Kapelle and Simone Sprenger On the Nature of a Metrical Frame in the Lexicon: A pupillometric study on how the word production process is affected by incongruent word stress distractors 10. Fabian Tomaschek, Madeline Philipsen and Marlene Zimmermann Massive Variation in Spontaneously Spoken German due to strong Coarticulation in Relation to Lexical and Phonetic Predictors 11. Bryor Snefjella and Idan Blank The English Lexicon Imputation Project 12. Jordan Gallant, Gary Libben and Laurie Beth Feldman Spaced-out compounds: What orthographic alteration can and cannot tell us about morphological processes in production |
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| Poster Room 3 Saturday 11:45 – 12:30 | 01. Hanne Surkyn, Reinhild Vandekerckhove and Dominiek Sandra The impact of analogical effects and social factors on the spelling of partially homophonous verb forms 02. Dilsah Kalay Word Knowledge Gains via Conceptual Approach 03. Alexandra Schmitterer and Garvin Brod Connected Neighborhoods are more Competitive: The Influence of Connectivity on Lexical Competitiveness in Children’s Decisions About Thematic Relations 04. Angelika Golegos and Theo Marinis Pronoun resolution in monolingual German adults 05. Annika Schebesta and Gero Kunter Phonetic variation in NNN compounds: acoustic duration and plosive reduction 06. Ellen Taylor, Kate Nation and Yaling Hsiao Context availability and sentence availability ratings for 3,000 English words and their association with lexical processing 07. Solbin Lee, Eun Ha Lee, Jinwon Kang, Jeahong Kim, Sangyub Kim, Changwhan Lee and Kichun Nam Comparison type and token syllable effect in Korean morphologically complex words 08. Joohee Ahn, Jaehee Ryu, Jinwon Kang, Seonghak Jo, Junghye Choi and Sun-Young Lee An fMRI study on morphological processing of Sino-Korean derivational prefix 09. Jugyeong Sun and Kichun Nam Which flicker frequency is more useful than others? 10. Regina Hert, Juhani Järvikivi and Anja Arnhold Er or der? The influence of information structure on referent selection 11. Bahareh Yousefzadeh, Gary Libben and Sid Segalowitz Persian compounds in the mental lexicon 12. Julia Cataldo and Aniela França Friend or foe: the morphological kinship between words 13. Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Julie Siying Chen and Ka Keung Lee A failure to replicate the Ganong effect for tone continua |