WoProc 2026 — Conference Programme

13th International Word Processing Conference · Lisbon, Portugal · 6–8 July 2026

Day 1 — Monday, 6 July

Talks · Poster Session 1

08:30–09:00Registration
09:00–09:20Opening remarks
09:20–10:40TALKSSession 1 · Novel words and novel meanings Chair: João Veríssimo▶
  1. Of a cute urglon and a nasty pebi: Systematic form-meaning mappings in contextGiovanni Cassani, Kazimierz Garstecki, & Ngoc-Anh TranAbstract ↗
  2. Context-based learning of novel meanings after minimal exposure to natural text: An EEG studyGiulia Loca, Fabio Marson, Marco Ciapparelli, & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  3. Predicting the interpretational diversity of novel compounds in an exploratory-confirmatory studyFritz Günther, Melanie Bell, & Martin SchäferAbstract ↗
10:40–11:00Coffee break
11:00–12:15TALKSSession 2 · Bilingual word processing Chair: Vera Heyer▶
  1. Lexical stress from German in the ears of French and Spanish listeners: Cross-linguistic influence in foreign language segmentationMarie-Christin Flohr, Mireia Marimon, Sarah Schimke, & Katie Von HolzenAbstract ↗
  2. Developmental trajectories of decoding skills in bilingual and monolingual children: A cross-sectional studyGiuditta 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 CaffarraAbstract ↗
  3. Positive mood, broader connections: N400 amplitudes reveal mood-sensitive spreading activation in bilingualsPiotr Żukowski & Marcin NaranowiczAbstract ↗
12:15–13:45Lunch break (on your own)
13:45–15:00TALKSSession 3 · Grammar and form in production Chair: Paula Luegi▶
  1. Quantitative account of syntactically conditioned word-initial voicing in Maloe Karachkino ChuvashNatalia LogvinovaAbstract ↗
  2. Lexical specificity in semantic and phonological effects: Iconicity and the PWI paradigmGiulio Massari, Fanny Meunier, & Raphaël FargierAbstract ↗
  3. On the lexical representation of nominal compounds: Evidence from continuous naming in EnglishEsra Ataman, Elisabeth Beyersmann, & Antje LorenzAbstract ↗
15:00–15:20Coffee break
15:20–17:00TALKSSession 4 · Word meaning and semantic representations Chair: Roberto G. de Almeida▶
  1. The effect of sensory priming in polysemous senses processingSara Božić & Dušica Filipović ĐurđevićAbstract ↗
  2. Computational modelling of polysemy sense relatednessKsenija Mišić & Dušica Filipović ĐurđevićAbstract ↗
  3. Understanding written compounds: A computational modelYu-Hsiang Tseng, Tian Shen, Maziyah Mohamed, & Rolf Harald BaayenAbstract ↗
  4. Neural dynamics of multimodal semantic representationsLaura Anna Ciaccio, Silvia Angela Mansi, Marco A. Petilli, Marco Marelli, & Luca RinaldiAbstract ↗
17:00–18:15POSTERSPoster Session 1 24 posters▶
  • P01Beyond English and suffixation: Why morphological processing and learning research needs more linguistic and morphological diversityDave Kenneth Cayado & Kathy RastleAbstract ↗
  • P02Processing semantically opaque complex vs. pseudo-complex words in Modern GreekNikolaos Ntagkas & Despina PapadopoulouAbstract ↗
  • P03Producing novel compound words in German: A primed picture-naming taskAntje Lorenz, Pienie Zwitserlood, Fritz Günther, & Rasha Abdel RahmanAbstract ↗
  • P05SerBial: VLD RT database of 2400 Serbian words in two alphabets reveals interference of codesDušica Filipović Đurđević, Milica Popović Stijačić, Sunčica Zdravković, Maja Savić, Ksenija Mišić, & Sara BožićAbstract ↗
  • P06An eye-tracking study of ergativity processing in West CircassianOlga Tuzhik, Sofia Ganieva, Alexandra Korzhenevskaya, Aida Bguasheva, Yury Lander, Susanna Makerova, & Olga DragoyAbstract ↗
  • P07The effect of spelling entropy on reading: An eye tracking study with reference to RussianPolina Maksimova & Daria ChernovaAbstract ↗
  • P08Variable dental suffixation and the representation of competing morphological paradigms in AlemannicNiklas GrüningerAbstract ↗
  • P09From offline awareness to online processing: Predicting implicit morphological priming in childrenLaura M. GonnermanAbstract ↗
  • P10Morphological complexity in semantic access: An investigation of novel complex word processingLudovica Monte & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  • P11Decoding gender assignment in an opaque system: Experimental evidence from Czech nonwordsMikuláš Preininger, Martina Abbondanza, Lukáš Jiřička, Anna Chromá, & Filip SmolíkAbstract ↗
  • P12Blending and compounding: Strategies and preferences in creative language useJana Häussler, Amelie Ewald, Dilara Balaban, & Joana CholinAbstract ↗
  • P13Meaningless morpho-orthographic parsing: Evidence from word-picture relatedness tasksKyan Salehi & Roberto G. de AlmeidaAbstract ↗
  • P14Dictionary-based and judged stress variability in visual lexical decisionVladislav Zubov & Elena RiekhakaynenAbstract ↗
  • P15Allomorphic competition and regular pattern selection in productive plural morphology: Evidence from European PortugueseJoana Miguel & Ana CastroAbstract ↗
  • P16The role of durational reduction on speech segmentation: Evidence from artificial language learningShu-chen Ou & Hung-lin WuAbstract ↗
  • P17Recognition of reduced word forms in second language lexical learningMotoki Saito & Esther RuigendijkAbstract ↗
  • P18The role of specified prosody in word recognitionChristophe Zerakitsky Vies, Nicolai Pharao, & Kasper EskelundAbstract ↗
  • P19Neighborhood effects in Estonian spoken word recognitionKaidi Lõo, Anton Malmi, & Benjamin V. TuckerAbstract ↗
  • P20Processing wordplay: Individual differences in wordplay affinity among German speakersAmelie Ewald, Jana Häussler, & Joana CholinAbstract ↗
  • P21Native language phonotactics impacts early word learning in (a)typical development: An eye-tracking studyJovana Pejovic, Cátia Severino, Sónia Frota, & Marina VigárioAbstract ↗
  • P22Are all lexical repetitions perceptually equal? Evidence from RussianElena Riekhakaynen & Elena ZatevalovaAbstract ↗
  • P23Prosodic modulation of pragmatic marker processing: Cross-linguistic evidence from Japanese, English, and CzechSachin PanickerAbstract ↗
  • P25Coarticulatory cues in L2 spoken word recognition: A visual world eye-tracking studyJéssica Gomes, Mercedes Martinez Bruera, Kyle Parrish, & Elise OltroggeAbstract ↗
  • P26Smart brands, trustworthy names, and evil pseudowords: Form-meaning associations for existing, possible, and impossible Dutch stringsJoris van Eijkelenburg, Aron Joosse, Erik-Jan van Kesteren, & Giovanni CassaniAbstract ↗

Day 2 — Tuesday, 7 July

Talks · Symposium · Poster Session 2 · Keynote · Conference dinner

09:15–10:30TALKSSession 5 · Experience, knowledge, and prediction Chair: Paula Luegi▶
  1. Magical words and where to find them: Effects of domain knowledge on word processingSascha Schroeder & Astrid HaaseAbstract ↗
  2. L2 lexical development reshapes the L1 semantic networkAdel Chaouch-OrozcoAbstract ↗
  3. Ageing improves the use of morphosyntactic information during predictive processingJéssica Gomes, Sol Lago, & João VeríssimoAbstract ↗
10:30–10:45Coffee break
10:45–12:15TALKSSession 6 · Morphology beyond surface form Chair: Dušica Filipović Đurđević▶
  1. Dissociating sublexical and lexical masked priming effects: Only words are morphologically decomposedCrystal Jemy, Roberto Petrosino, & Diogo AlmeidaAbstract ↗
  2. When nothing matches but abstract structure: Morphological priming without shared form or grammarDave Kenneth Cayado, Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Samantha Wray, & Linnaea StockallAbstract ↗
  3. The cognitive reality of morphomes: Psycholinguistic evidence from ItalianChiara Cappellaro, Maria Ktori, Hélène Giraudo, Davide Crepaldi, & Martin MaidenAbstract ↗
  4. Beyond islands of regularity: Evidence against morpho-orthographic decompositionRoberto Petrosino, Diogo Almeida, & Jon SprouseAbstract ↗
12:15–13:30Lunch break (on your own)
13:30–15:30SYMPOSIUMEmerging computational approaches to lexicon and morphology Invited symposium▶

Sol Lago — Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Abstract ↗

Marco Marelli — University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Abstract ↗

Evelina Leivada — Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Abstract ↗

15:30–16:45POSTERSPoster Session 2 + Coffee 23 posters▶
  • P04PseudoConnector: A game of (non)lexical selection and productionIva Šaban, Marco Marelli, & Abhilasha A. KumarAbstract ↗
  • P24Semantic pseudoword creationRolando Bonandrini, Rolf Harald Baayen, & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  • P27Attention shifts caused by linguistic stimuli: A Bayesian investigation of spatial associations encoded in languageOksana Tsaregorodtseva, Luca Rinaldi, & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  • P28Evidence for a unitary semantic gateway for words and pseudowords across languagesFabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Simona Amenta, & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  • P29Overthinking doesn’t help: Large language models on interpreting pseudowordsJing Chen & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  • P30From quiz show to mental lexicon: Sub-lexical patterns inform the semantics of unknown wordsSimona Amenta, Marco A. Petilli, Luca Borgonovo, & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  • P31How stable is emotional word experience? Effects of induced cognitive control and local contextAleksandra Stanimirović & Dušica Filipović ĐurđevićAbstract ↗
  • P32Animate efficiency and word-level processing in autistic and non-autistic adultsFelipe von Hausen, Ernesto Guerra, & Pia KnoeferleAbstract ↗
  • P33Does grammatical gender shape conceptual representation? A replication across the lifespanLeigh B. Fernandez, John Cristian Borges Gambôa, & Shanley E. M. AllenAbstract ↗
  • P34From black-and-white to color: Effects of lexical access on semantic domainsJosefina Castillo Cerutti, Dolores Zamora, Nicolás Nahuel Romero, Juan Pablo Barreyro, & Macarena Martínez-CuitiñoAbstract ↗
  • P35Representational spaces of color in comparisonIlaria Appel & Fritz GüntherAbstract ↗
  • P36Semantic networks and prediction in language processingFanny Meunier, Raphaël Fargier, & Vincent VossAbstract ↗
  • P37Does emotion matter less in dense conceptual networks?Filip Smolík, Mikuláš Preininger, & Lukáš JiřičkaAbstract ↗
  • P38Developing Mandarin cloze probability norms for spoken predictive processingHui Ching ChenAbstract ↗
  • P39Remembering stereotypically congruent and incongruent role nouns in German: The role of grammatical gender and decision bias in recognition memoryDespoina ChalyvidouAbstract ↗
  • P40Language dominance and code-switching cost: fMRI data from Chinese EFL speakersYizhou WangAbstract ↗
  • P41Adult neuroplasticity in word processing: Evidence from first language attrition researchAnastasia SorokinaAbstract ↗
  • P42L2 proficiency modulates semantic space in Korean-English bilinguals: An ERP studySunwoo Moon, Hyungwook Yim, & Say Young KimAbstract ↗
  • P43Cracking L2 morphological processing: The impact of prime duration and L1 morphological richnessAna Isabel Fernandes, Juan Haro, Ana Duarte Campos, Ana Rita Sá-Leite, Pilar Ferré, & Montserrat ComesañaAbstract ↗
  • P44The effects of awareness, cue-outcome temporal order, and offline consolidation on learning non-native phonological cuesSeyit Deniz Yılmaz & Bilal KırkıcıAbstract ↗
  • P45Hyphenation to facilitate stem detection in inflected and orthographic primes: Morphology matters for both L1 and L2 speakersVera HeyerAbstract ↗
  • P46Prediction and attraction effects in aging bilingualsVictoria Cano Sánchez, Zuzanna Fuchs, & Pedro Guijarro-FuentesAbstract ↗
  • P47Déja-vu? Impact of the L1 on processing complex verbs in L2 FrenchIrene FallyAbstract ↗
16:45–17:45KEYNOTEDavide Crepaldi University of Pavia, Italy▶

Davide Crepaldi — University of Pavia, Italy

Abstract ↗

Day 3 — Wednesday, 8 July

Talks · Keynote · Closing

09:15–10:45TALKSSession 7 · L2 morphological processing Chair: João Veríssimo▶
  1. Morphological decomposition in German-English bilingualsHannah Davidson, Julia Schwarz, & Mirjana BozicAbstract ↗
  2. Do late L2 learners use inflectional and derivational affixes to integrate novel words in sentence reading?Vera HeyerAbstract ↗
  3. Retention of content versus surface form information during reading: Asymmetries between L1 and L2 processingDenisa Bordag, Andreas Opitz, & Hans-Georg BerulavaAbstract ↗
  4. Morphological processing in ESL writing: Effects of genre, proficiency, and first language backgroundKhaled Barkaoui & Ibtissem KnouziAbstract ↗
10:45–11:00Coffee break
11:00–12:30TALKSSession 8 · Language development and disorder Chair: Cátia Severino▶
  1. Rapid online assessment of reading: Validation of an Italian single-word reading toolElisa 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 CaffarraAbstract ↗
  2. Learning morphological rules across development and disorderJoana Miguel, Catarina Barbosa, Susana Cardoso, & João VeríssimoAbstract ↗
  3. Morphological processing in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderZeynep Belendir & Bilal KırkıcıAbstract ↗
  4. Sensorimotor simulation in schizophrenia: Evidence from action and object namingMoritz Wackerbarth, Juliane Bergdolt, Katja Koelkebeck, & Antje LorenzAbstract ↗
12:30–13:45Lunch break (on your own)
13:45–14:45KEYNOTEJana Reifegerste Georgetown University, USA▶

Jana Reifegerste — Georgetown University, USA

Abstract ↗

14:45–15:00Coffee break
15:00–16:15TALKSSession 9 · Lexical resources and large-scale evidence Chair: Jéssica Gomes▶
  1. The German Lexicon ProjectAliona Petrenco, Jana Hasenäcker, Benjamin Gagl, Louis Schiekiera, Fritz Günther, Xenia Schmalz, & Tanja C. RoembkeAbstract ↗
  2. English Pseudoword Lexicon Project: A megastudy for investigating pseudoword processingFabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Iva Šaban, Simona Amenta, & Marco MarelliAbstract ↗
  3. What drives interference? A mega-analytic approach to predicting reaction times from word propertiesLouis Schiekiera, Vincent Gruber, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Kirsten Stark, Antje Lorenz, & Fritz GüntherAbstract ↗
16:15–16:30Closing remarks