Conference Programme
Preliminary Schedule
Monday, 6 July
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 (on your own)
13:45 General Talks Session 3: Grammar and form in production
15:10 Coffee break
15:30 General Talks Session 4: Word meaning and semantic representations
17:00 Poster Session 1
Tuesday, 7 July
09:00 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 (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
09:15 General Talks Session 7: L2 morphological processing
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 General Talks Session 8: Language development and disorder
12:15 Lunch (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
16:30 Closing Remarks
Thursday & Friday, 9-10 July
09:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Bayesian statistics for word processing research
General Talks
Monday, 6 July
Session 1
Novel words and meanings
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Of a cute urglon and a nasty pebi: Systematic form-meaning mappings in context
Giovanni Cassani
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Context-based learning of novel meanings after minimal exposure to natural text: An EEG study
Giulia Loca
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Predicting the interpretational diversity of novel compounds in an exploratory-confirmatory study
Fritz Günther
Session 2
Bilingual word processing
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Lexical stress from German in the ears of French and Spanish listeners:
Cross-linguistic influence in foreign language segmentation
Marie-Christin Flohr
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Developmental trajectories of decoding skills in bilingual and monolingual children: A cross-sectional study
Giuditta Smith
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Positive mood, broader connections: N400 amplitudes reveal mood-sensitive spreading activation in bilinguals
Piotr Żukowski
Session 3
Grammar and form in production
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Quantitative account of syntactically conditioned word-initial voicing in Maloe Karachkino Chuvash
Natalia Logvinova
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Lexical specificity in semantic and phonological effects: Iconicity and the PWI paradigm
Giulio Massari
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On the lexical representation of nominal compounds: Evidence from continuous naming in English
Esra Ataman
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Derivational morphology in word production: A novel experimental paradigm
Jiamin Cheng
Session 4
Word meaning and semantic representations
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The effect of sensory priming in polysemous senses processing
Sara Božić
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Computational modelling of polysemy sense relatedness
Ksenija Mišić
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Understanding written compounds: A computational model
Yu-Hsiang Tseng
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Neural dynamics of multimodal semantic representations
Laura Anna Ciaccio
Tuesday, 7 July
Session 5
Experience, knowledge, and prediction
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Magical words and where to find them: Effects of domain knowledge on word processing
Sascha Schroeder
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L2 lexical development reshapes the L1 semantic network
Adel Chaouch-Orozco
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Event knowledge effects on prediction and integration in self-paced reading
Nicolás Acuña
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Ageing improves the use of morphosyntactic information during predictive processing
Jéssica Gomes
Session 6
Morphology beyond surface form
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Dissociating sublexical and lexical masked priming effects: Only words are morphologically decomposed
Crystal Jemy
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When nothing matches but abstract structure: Morphological priming without shared form or grammar
Dave Kenneth Cayado
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The cognitive reality of morphomes: Psycholinguistic evidence from Italian
Chiara Cappellaro
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Beyond islands of regularity: Evidence against morpho-orthographic decomposition
Roberto Petrosino
Wednesday, 8 July
Session 7
L2 morphological processing
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Morphological decomposition in German-English bilinguals
Hannah Davidson
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Do late L2 learners use inflectional and derivational affixes to integrate novel words in sentence reading?
Vera Heyer
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Retention of content versus surface form information during reading: Asymmetries between L1 and L2 processing
Denisa Bordag
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Morphological processing in ESL writing: Effects of genre, proficiency, and first language background
Khaled Barkaoui
Session 8
Language development and disorder
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Learning morphological rules across development and disorder
Joana Miguel
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Morphological processing in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Zeynep Belendir
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Sensorimotor simulation in schizophrenia: Evidence from action and object naming
Moritz Wackerbarth
Session 9
Lexical resources and large-scale evidence
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The German Lexicon Project
Aliona Petrenco
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English Pseudoword Lexicon Project: A megastudy for investigating pseudoword processing
Fabio Marson
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Rapid online assessment of reading: Validation of an Italian single-word reading tool
Elisa Bassoli
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What drives interference? A mega-analytic approach to predicting reaction times from word properties
Louis Schiekiera
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.