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Day 1 - Monday September 1

Time Title, click for abstract (tba)
Authors, Presenter
08:15-08:45 Registration
08:45-09:00 Welcome
09:00-09:30

Processing morphological complexity in Kalaallisut reading

Solvej Wilbrandt Jaeger, Mads Nielsen, Johanne Sofie Krog Nedergaard, Naja Blytmann Trondhjem, Amalie Hoegsbro Joergensen, Kasper Boye

09:30-10:00

Eye-tracking evidence for grammaticalized animacy agreement in Polish

Zuzanna Fuchs, Anna Runova

10:00-10:30

Cross-linguistic differences in morphological priming across morphologically complex languages: Evidence from Malayalam and Bangla

Suvrojit Nath, Nayana Raj, Samar Husain (ONLINE)

10:30-11:00 ---   Coffee Break   ---
11:00-11:30

The role of verb type in modulating the ERPs for Thematic Reversal Anomalies: The case of Subject and Object experiencer verbs in Malayalam

S. Shalu, R. Muralikrishnan & Kamal Kumar Choudhary (ONLINE)

11:30-12:00

Neural Signatures of Dependency Processing: Distinguishing Syntax and Semantics

Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Roberto Zariquiey, Caroline Andrews & Balthasar Bickel

12:00-12:30

Electrophysiological evidence for a transitive agent preference in Hindi

Sebastian Sauppe, Mahima Gulati, Kamal K. Choudhary, Shikha Bhattamishra, Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel

12:30-14:15 ---   Lunch Break (Octavo, Binzmühlestrasse 130, 8092 Zurich)   ---
14:15-15:15

Keynote Talk: Language input and language processing in early word learning

Sudha Arunachalam

15:15-15:45

Coreference in spoken-language discourse continuation tasks in Vera’a

Stefan Schnell, Tai Hong

15:45-16:15

Existential Quantification and Scalar Implicatures in Child Imbabura Kichwa

John Grinstead, Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro (ONLINE)

16:15-17:45

Poster Apéro

19:00

--- Conference dinner at Moudi's Lecker Garten, Winterthurerstrasse 86, 8006 Zurich

Day 2 - Tuesday, September 2

Time Title
Authors, Presenter
09:00-09:30

Language, Perception, and Attention: Shared Representations & Cross-Domain Interplay (ONLINE)

Andriy Myachykov

09:30-10:00

From the Sidelines: Peripheral Vision Reshapes What We Know About Word Learning in Signers

Jennifer Sander, Dilys Eikelboom, Yayun Zhang, Caroline F. Rowland

10:00-10:30

Form-meaning Systematicity in Malay Reading: A Computational and Behavioural Approach

M. Maziyah Mohamed, R.H. Baayen

10:30-11:00 ---   Coffee Break   ---
11:00-11:30

Shared Syntactic Representation in Typologically Distinct Languages: Evidence from Cross-Linguistic Structural Priming in Indonesian-English Bilinguals

Saffanah Fathin, Rowena Garcia, Jens Roeser, Evan Kidd

11:30-12:00

Possessor-first or Subject-first? Processing Ambiguity in Bangla Genitives

Soumini Banerjee (ONLINE)

12:00-12:30

Event Boundedness and Object Encoding: Telicity Effects of Mass vs. Count Syntax in Persian

Maryam Torabi, Pegah Faghiri, Monique Flecken

12:30-14:15 ---   Lunch Break (Octavo, Binzmühlestrasse 130, 8092 Zurich)   ---
14:15-15:15

Keynote Talk: Diverse Languages, Common Neurocognition?

Lars Meyer

15:15-15:45

Humans vs. LLMs: World‐ Knowledge Integration in Turkish Relative‐Clause Ambiguity

Sercan Karakas (ONLINE)

15:45-16:15

--- Coffee Break ---

16:15-16:45

Processing Gender Agreement in Arabic and Tamazight: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Two Typologically Contrasting Systems

Asmae El Hassani (ONLINE)

16:45-17:15

Phoneme Pair Distributions Suggest a Common Organizational Principle across 47 Languages

Luca Onnis, Emilio Ojeda Cervantes (ONLINE)

17:15-17:45

Is there a semantic core to noun agreement classes? Data from 15 languages spanning 6 families

Joshua K Hartshorne, Elena Negron Reichard, Aidas Aglinskas, Marc Allossonniere-Tang, Stefano Anzellotti, Inbal Arnon, Damian Blasi, Jennifer Culbertson, Francesca Di Garbo, Christopher Hammerly, Patrick Kanampiu, Eric Le Ferrand, Miseon Lee, Tianyi Li, Elie Salem, Annemarie Verkerk, Eva Wittenberg, Serhii Zasyekin

17:45-18:00 Closing remarks
18:15

--- Farewell drinks (Zum Frischen Max) ---

Posters

Title
Authors, Presenter
Children's online processing of scalar implicature

Shuyan Wang & Diane Lillo-Martin

Typological differences in path encoding and manner salience in Bulgarian and English

Radina Dobreva, Alexandra Birch, Frank Keller, Annie Holtz

Do Different Grammatical Properties of Languages Shape the Processing of Negation? A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

Svetlana Mnogogreshnova, Clara Vilà Dolado, Sol Lago, Esther Rinke, Petra Schulz

Speech in noise perception in tonal language speakers: Insights from neural speech tracking

Jing Liu, Zihan Zhang, Felix Stockar, Catalina Torres, and Basil Preisig

What Can Be Learned from Sparse Voice Distributions? A Bayesian Data Analysis of Verb-Voice Associations in a Philippine-Type Language

Kaiying Lin, Patrick O'Neil, Joshua Hartshorne

From Cortex to Corpus: L1 Transfer from Chinese and Korean in L2 Japanese Learners

Alaa M. Salem and Shinri Ohta

Language specific differences in morphological processing: the role of semantics in
Maltese vs. Hebrew lexical access

Adam Ussishkin, Jessica Nieder