Conference schedule to download (pdf)
List of posters to download (pdf)
Satellite workshops
Wednesday 3rd September
8:30–9:00 Registration
Workshop 1: Big Data in Psycholinguistics
9:00–9:15 Opening
9:15–10:25 Penny Pexman: Leveraging Big Data to Map Lexical-Semantic Space
10:25–10:45 Coffee break
10:45–11:55 Erin Buchanan: Designing Big Science: Lessons from a 25,000-Participant, 30-Language Semantic Priming Study
11:55–12:15 Coffee break
12:15–13:25 Emmanuel Keuleers: Understanding Measures of Word Occurrence in Psycholinguistics through a Network of Static and Dynamic Actors
13:25–14:30 Lunch (on your own)
Workshop 2: Multilingual Experience: From Individuals to Society
14:30–15:00 Opening talk: Kateřina Chládková: Researching and communicating multilingualism
15:00–16:10 Sharon Unsworth: Using Public Engagement to ‘Normalize’ Multilingualism
16:10–16:40 Coffee break
16:40–17:50 Natalie Boll-Avetisyan: Born into a Multilingual Society: Early Language Acquisition in Ghana
19:00–22:00 Welcome reception, Kampus Hybernská
AMLAP main event
Thursday 4th September
08:00–08:50 Registration
08:50–09:00 Opening
09:00–10:00 Keynote 1: Vera Demberg: Towards personalized models of processing difficulty: Modelling individual differences in working memory capacity and background knowledge
10:00–11:30 Coffee & Thursday Morning Posters
11:30–12:50 Session 1 (Chair: Filip Smolík)
i. Eunice G. Fernandes & Yanina Prystauka & Foyzul Rahman & Helene Slaattelid Øya & Allison Wetterlin & Katrien Segaert & Linda Wheeldon: Age-related effects of language proficiency and use on language switching
ii. Jade Sandstedt & Hjalmar T. Eiksund & Mizuki Tanigawa: Processing multilectal grammatical microvariation: Mapping individual differences with self-paced reading
iii. Hannah G. Treadway & Souad Kheder & Jorge Valdes-Kroff & Edith Kaan: Cognitive control adaptation in code-switching: An ERP study
iv. Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Lara Perić & Viktorija Jovanović: Phonological ambiguity effect: new kid on the block switching paradigm
12:50–14:20 Lunch (on your own)
14:20–15:40 Session 2 (Chair: Radim Lacina)
i. Leonardo Concetti: Encoding and Reactivating Syntactic Nodes: insights from Coordination
ii. Li Kloostra & Rick Nouwen & Jakub Dotlacil: Memory Retrieval in Discourse with ‘again’: Eye-tracking and acceptability studies
iii. Chengjie Jiang & Walter van Heuven & Ruth Filik: Is world knowledge activation exhaustive or selective during language comprehension? Evidence from bidirectional self-paced reading
iv. Pia Schoknecht & Dario Paape & Shravan Vasishth: The time course of local coherence effects in reading times and event-related potentials
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:20 Session 3 (Chair: Nikola Paillereau)
i. Serge Minor & Natalia Mitrofanova & Gillian Ramchand: “Quantum leaps” in grammar acquisition: Evidence from child Russian
ii. Julia Ercse & Peter Hendrix: The temporal dynamics of word learning: a time-to-event analysis of age-of-acquisition
iii. Elena Marx & Eva Wittenberg & Jesse Snedeker: Preschoolers use event dynamics to infer temporal order in language
iv. Barbora Skarabela & Mitsuhiko Ota & Filip Smolík: Children’s sensitivity to animacy constraints in possessive noun phrases: Priming induces non-adult-like structures in Czech preschoolers
17:20–18:50 Snacks & Thursday Afternoon Posters
Friday 5th September
09:00–10:00 Keynote 2: Guillaume Thierry: The Bilingual Multiverse: Real-Time Effects of Language of Operation on Categorical Perception and Abstract Conceptualisation
10:00–11:30 Coffee & Friday Morning Posters
11:30–12:50 Session 4 (Chair: Filip Smolík)
i. Gustavo Lopez Estivalet & Katie L. McMahon & Joanne Arciuli & Greig I. de Zubicaray: Phonological typicality in the distribution of nouns and verbs in French: Statistical relations between form and grammar
ii. Jéssica Gomes & Sol Lago & João Veríssimo: Ageing yields improvements in morphosyntactic prediction
iii. Danny Dixon & Lisa Levinson: Sensitivity to Verb Bias as a Continuous Variable in L1 and L2 Processing
iv. Anna Fiona Weiss & Markus Bader & Michael Meng: The task dependence of misinterpretation effects: A comparison of L1 and L2 speakers of German
12:50–14:20 Lunch (on your own)
14:20–15:20 Session 5 (Chair: Radim Lacina)
i. Katja Haeuser: Predictive processing adapts to prediction error in a non-linear fashion – that’s why adaptation effects are so difficult to detect using LMERs
ii. Amalia Spyromilio & Holly Jenkins & Elizabeth Wonnacott & Michael Ramscar: How gender information influences spontaneous speech in context
iii. Susanne Eisenhauer & David Hernández-Gutiérrez & Simona Mancini: Linguistic complexity measures (surprisal, entropy, semantic similarity, syntactic node counts) differentially impact initial vs. re-reading
15:20–16:50 Coffee & Friday Afternoon Posters
16:50–17:50 Keynote 3: Michael Ramscar: What is language processing anyway?
19:00–23:00 Conference dinner (Vinohradský pivovar), only with dinner registration
Saturday 6th September
09:00–10:00 Keynote 4: Linda Drijvers: Towards a multimodal view on the neurobiology of language
10:00–11:30 Coffee & Saturday Morning Posters
11:30–12:50 Session 6 (Chair: Filip Smolík)
i. Fabio Marson & Giulia Loca & Marco Ciapparelli & Marco Marelli: Context-based encoding of novel meanings after minimal exposure to natural text: an EEG study on integration of linguistic chimeras
ii. Harshada Vinaya & Sean Trott & Seana Coulson: Vision Language Model Representations Predict EEG Response to Visual and Auditory Attributes in Property Verification
iii. Svetlana Mnogogreshnova & Sol Lago & Esther Rinke & Petra Schulz & Clara Vilà Dolado: Comprehension of Pragmatically Licensed Sentential Negation and Its Influence on Memory Retention
iv. Shiyu He & Petar Milin & Dagmar Divjak: Where L2 Still Looks L2: Spatial Undershoot and Logographic Saccadic Programming in Advanced L1 Chinese/L2 English readers
12:50–14:20 Lunch on your own
14:20–15:40 Session 7 (Chair: Nikola Paillereau)
i. Tamara Butigan & Norbert Vanek & Robert Greenberg: Language planning and lexical competition: evidence from lexical processing for sociopragmatic differentiation of absolute synonyms
ii. Marc Brysbaert & Javier Conde & Pedro Reviriego & Gonzalo Martínez: Augmenting the psycholinguistic toolbox with AI-generated word characteristics
iii. Sophie Repp & Heiko Seeliger & Sven David Weber: Pronoun accentuation produces interference effects in memory for alternatives
iii. Charles Lin & Zeping Liu & Xiao Dong: Building Structures Left to Right and Bottom Up: The Production and Perception of Syntactic Branching by L1 and L2 Users of a Tone Language (Mandarin Chinese)
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:20 Session 8 (Chair: Radim Lacina)
i. Elliot Schwartz & Griffin Pion & Jake Quilty-Dunn & Eric Mandelbaum & Spencer Caplan: Thinking about nothing: the processing and mental representation of lexical ambiguity
ii. Isabella Fritz & Joshua Booth & Aditi Lahiri: Redefining psycholinguistic cognates: Linguistic and historical considerations
iii. Ana Bautista & Clara Martin: Not that cloze: Semantic sentence constraint is influenced by language background and dominance
iv. John Duff & Laura Pissani: Jointly modeling maze RT and accuracy using diffusion models: A first case study
17:20–17:40 Closing remarks