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Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Monday, 6 July

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08:30 Registration
09:00 Opening remarks
09:20 General Talks Session 1: Novel words and novel meanings
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 General Talks Session 2: Bilingual word processing
12:15 Lunch break (on your own)
13:45 General Talks Session 3: Grammar and form in production
15:00 Coffee break
15:20 General Talks Session 4: Word meaning and semantic representations
17:00 Poster Session 1

Tuesday, 7 July

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09:15 General Talks Session 5: Experience, knowledge, and prediction
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 General Talks Session 6: Morphology beyond surface form
12:15 Lunch break (on your own)
13:30 Symposium: Emerging computational approaches to lexicon and morphology
15:30 Poster Session 2 + Coffee break
16:45 Keynote: Davide Crepaldi (University of Pavia)
19:30 Conference dinner

Wednesday, 8 July

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09:15 General Talks Session 7: L2 morphological processing
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 General Talks Session 8: Language development and disorder
12:30 Lunch break (on your own)
13:45 Keynote: Jana Reifegerste (Georgetown University)
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 General Talks Session 9: Lexical resources and large-scale evidence
16:15     Closing remarks

Thursday–Friday, 9–10 July

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09:30–17:00 Workshop: Bayesian statistics for word processing research

General Talks

Monday, 6 July

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Session 1

Novel words and novel meanings
Chair: João Veríssimo
 

  • Of a cute urglon and a nasty pebi: Systematic form-meaning mappings in context
    Giovanni Cassani, Kazimierz Garstecki, & Ngoc-Anh Tran
     

  • Context-based learning of novel meanings after minimal exposure to natural text: An EEG study
    Giulia Loca, Fabio Marson, Marco Ciapparelli, & Marco Marelli
     

  • Predicting the interpretational diversity of novel compounds in an exploratory-confirmatory study
    Fritz Günther, Melanie Bell, & Martin Schäfer

Session 2

Bilingual word processing
Chair: Vera Heyer
 

  • Lexical stress from German in the ears of French and Spanish listeners: Cross-linguistic influence in foreign language segmentation
    Marie-Christin Flohr, Mireia Marimon, Sarah Schimke, & Katie Von Holzen
     

  • Developmental trajectories of decoding skills in bilingual and monolingual children: A cross-sectional study
    Giuditta Smith, Elisa Bassoli, Yagmur Ozturk, Emily Arteaga Garcia, Wanjing Anya Ma, ROAR Developer Consortium, I-ROAR Data Collector Consortium, Jason D. Yeatman, Marilina Mastrogiuseppe, & Sendy Caffarra
     

  • Positive mood, broader connections: N400 amplitudes reveal mood-sensitive spreading activation in bilinguals
    Piotr Żukowski & Marcin Naranowicz

Session 3

Grammar and form in production
Chair: Isabel Falé
 

  • CANCELLED: Quantitative account of syntactically conditioned word-initial voicing in Maloe Karachkino Chuvash
    Natalia Logvinova
     

  • Lexical specificity in semantic and phonological effects: Iconicity and the PWI paradigm
    Giulio Massari, Fanny Meunier, & Raphaël Fargier
     

  • On the lexical representation of nominal compounds: Evidence from continuous naming in English
    Esra Ataman, Elisabeth Beyersmann, & Antje Lorenz

Session 4

Word meaning and semantic representations
Chair: Roberto G. de Almeida
 

  • The effect of sensory priming in polysemous senses processing
    Sara Božić & Dušica Filipović Đurđević
     

  • Computational modelling of polysemy sense relatedness
    Ksenija Mišić & Dušica Filipović Đurđević
     

  • Understanding written compounds: A computational model
    Yu-Hsiang Tseng, Tian Shen, Maziyah Mohamed, & Rolf Harald Baayen
     

  • Neural dynamics of multimodal semantic representations
    Laura Anna Ciaccio, Silvia Angela Mansi, Marco A. Petilli, Marco Marelli, & Luca Rinaldi

Tuesday, 7 July

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Session 5

Experience, knowledge, and prediction
Chair: Paula Luegi
 

  • Magical words and where to find them: Effects of domain knowledge on word processing
    Sascha Schroeder & Astrid Haase
     

  • L2 lexical development reshapes the L1 semantic network
    Adel Chaouch-Orozco
     

  • Ageing improves the use of morphosyntactic information during predictive processing
    Jéssica Gomes, Sol Lago, & João Veríssimo

Session 6

Morphology beyond surface form
Chair: Dušica Filipović Đurđević
 

  • Dissociating sublexical and lexical masked priming effects: Only words are morphologically decomposed
    Crystal Jemy, Roberto Petrosino, & Diogo Almeida
     

  • When nothing matches but abstract structure: Morphological priming without shared form or grammar
    Dave Kenneth Cayado, Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Samantha Wray, & Linnaea Stockall
     

  • The cognitive reality of morphomes: Psycholinguistic evidence from Italian
    Chiara Cappellaro, Maria Ktori, Hélène Giraudo, Davide Crepaldi, & Martin Maiden
     

  • Beyond islands of regularity: Evidence against morpho-orthographic decomposition
    Roberto Petrosino, Diogo Almeida, & Jon Sprouse

Wednesday, 8 July

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Session 7

L2 morphological processing
Chair: João Veríssimo
 

  • Morphological decomposition in German-English bilinguals
    Hannah Davidson, Julia Schwarz, & Mirjana Bozic
     

  • Do late L2 learners use inflectional and derivational affixes to integrate novel words in sentence reading?
    Vera Heyer
     

  • Retention of content versus surface form information during reading: Asymmetries between L1 and L2 processing
    Denisa Bordag, Andreas Opitz, & Hans-Georg Berulava
     

  • Morphological processing in ESL writing: Effects of genre, proficiency, and first language background
    Khaled Barkaoui & Ibtissem Knouzi

Session 8

Language development and disorder
Chair: Cátia Severino
 

  • Rapid online assessment of reading: Validation of an Italian single-word reading tool
    Elisa Bassoli, Giuditta Smith, Yagmur Ozturk, Emily Arteaga Garcia, Wanjing Anya Ma, ROAR Developer Consortium, I-ROAR Data Collector Consortium, Jason D. Yeatman, Marilina Mastrogiuseppe, & Sendy Caffarra
     

  • Learning morphological rules across development and disorder
    Joana Miguel, Catarina Barbosa, Susana Cardoso, & João Veríssimo
     

  • Morphological processing in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Zeynep Belendir & Bilal Kırkıcı
     

  • Sensorimotor simulation in schizophrenia: Evidence from action and object naming
    Moritz Wackerbarth, Juliane Bergdolt, Katja Koelkebeck, & Antje Lorenz

Session 9

Lexical resources and large-scale evidence
Chair: Jéssica Gomes
 

  • The German Lexicon Project
    Aliona Petrenco, Jana Hasenäcker, Benjamin Gagl, Louis Schiekiera, Fritz Günther, Xenia Schmalz, & Tanja C. Roembke
     

  • English Pseudoword Lexicon Project: A megastudy for investigating pseudoword processing
    Fabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Iva Šaban, Simona Amenta, & Marco Marelli
     

  • What drives interference? A mega-analytic approach to predicting reaction times from word properties
    Louis Schiekiera, Vincent Gruber, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Kirsten Stark, Antje Lorenz, & Fritz Günther

Conference Dinner

WoProc 2026’s conference dinner will take place on Tuesday, 7 July, at 19:30, at Casa do Alentejo (map).


A vegan menu is also available. The dinner costs €56 per person for the regular menu, or €46 per person for the vegan menu.

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