Program
X-PPL 2026 will take place on September 23-25. 9am-5:30pm CEST (UTC+2) on days 1 and 2, and 9:30am-12:30pm on day 3.
Day 1: September 23 (Wednesday)
| Time (CEST) | Authors | Title |
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| 09:00-10:00 Keynote talk |
Nina Kazanina | Relational organisation advantage: perception and memory for relations in language and vision |
| 10:00-10:30 Coffee break |
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| 10:30-12:30 Oral session 1.1 |
Donati Melissa, Kalashnikova Marina, Di Liberto Giovanni, Ip Emily Y, Chalehchaleh Amirhossein | Not All Words Are Equal and Not All Languages Agree: Language-specific Neural Tracking of Content and Function Words in Spanish, English, and Basque |
| Li Xiaofei, Jæger Solvej W., Boye Kasper | Attention to lexical and grammatical words in Chinese: A change blindness study | |
| Fuente-García Patricia, Zawiszewski Adam, Villegas Julian, Deluca Vincent, De La Cruz-Pavía Irene | Segmenting Speech Across the Lifespan: Cue Integration in Younger and Older Basque-Spanish Bilinguals | |
| Leivada Evelina, Morosi Paolo, Pantelidou Nikoleta, Gallego Balsà Lídia, Berro Ane, Masullo Camilla | Cross-linguistic differences in the processing of grammatical illusions across typologically diverse bilingual groups | |
| 12:30-14:00 Lunch break |
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| 14:00-15:00 Oral session 1.2 |
Giglio Laura, Phan Trang Thi Huyen, Sauppe Sebastian, Bickel Balthasar | The time course of Vietnamese verb planning: an EEG study |
| Sauppe Sebastian, Norcliffe Elisabeth, Konopka Agnieszka E., Levinson Stephen C. | Gaze behaviour reveals how cross-linguistic differences in case alignment shape the dynamics of sentence planning | |
| 15:00-16:30 Poster session 1 |
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| 16:30-17:30 Oral session 1.3 |
Savic Olivera, Rozin Anna, Kalashnikova Marina | Beyond Being Chatty: Conversational Turns Predict Vocabulary Growth in Young Basque–Spanish Bilinguals |
| Huber Eva | The acquisition of verbs and voice in Tagalog: a study on naturalistic child and child-directed speech |
Day 2: September 24 (Thursday)
| Time (CEST) | Authors | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-10:00 Keynote talk |
Evan Kidd | Language acquisition in crosslinguistic perspective |
| 10:00-10:30 Coffee break |
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| 10:30-12:30 Oral session 2.1 |
Rüst Olivier, Stoll Sabine | The Acquisition of Syntactic Markers in Young Children Learning Typologically Diverse Languages |
| Isasi-Isasmendi Arrate, de Castro Varun | Basque Children's Comprehension of Word Order and Case Marking | |
| Nicoladis Elena | Cross-linguistic differences on rhyme salience: Effects on rhyme awareness in preschool children | |
| Minor Serge, Hrebenshchykova Oleksandra, Długosz Kamil, Caha Pavel, Olszewska Anna, Westergaard Marit, Mitrofanova Natalia | Grammatical sensitivity and pupil dilations: Ukrainian children acquiring Polish and Czech | |
| 12:30-14:00 Lunch break |
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| 14:00-15:00 Oral session 2.2 |
Collart Aymeric | Temporal concord acceptability judgments through the lens of grammaticalization: Evidence from Truku Seediq and crosslinguistic comparisons |
| Sokolova Marina, Moskvina Natalia, Mirio E Silva Nayara | Processing Effects of Code-Switching in Humans and LLMs | |
| 15:00-16:30 Poster session 2 |
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| 16:30-17:30 Oral session 2.3 |
Shalu S, Muralikrishnan R., Choudhary Kamal Kumar | Does Verb Type Modulate ERP Responses to Differential Object Marking Violations: Evidence from Malayalam |
| Pilipets Polina, Tuzhik Olga, Prokopeva Maria, Vasilyeva Nadezhda, Dragoy Olga | Electrophysiological correlates of tense agreement violations in Yakut |
Day 3: September 25 (Friday)
| Time (CEST) | Authors | Title |
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| 09:30-10:30 Keynote talk |
Julia Krebs | Grammar in space and time: What sign languages reveal about language modality, processing and experience |
| 10:30-11:00 Coffee break |
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| 11:00-12:30 Oral session 3.1 |
Saponaro Chiara, Raminelli Letizia, Foppolo Francesca, Lobina David James, Guasti Maria Teresa | ‘You mean separately or together?' On the processing of collective/distributive ambiguity in Italian |
| Flohr Marie-Christin, Marimon Mireia, Schimke Sarah, Von Holzen Katie | Prosodic transfer in speech segmentation: How Spanish and French listeners process German-like stress | |
| Cayado Dave Kenneth Tayao, Pizarro-Guevara Jed, Wray Samantha, Stockall Linnaea | Morphological priming without shared form or grammar: evidence from Tagalog reduplication | |
| 12:30-12:45 Closing remarks |