Florida Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025

Saturday, February 15
 Florida State University

The 9th Annual Florida Psycholinguistics Meeting will take place in person on February 15th at Florida State University. This conference will bring together leading scholars from across the state to discuss the latest research and developments in psycholinguistics.

Important Dates

August 31: Submission Opens
September 18: Abstract Submission Closes
September 26: Notification of Acceptance
September 26: Registration Opens
October 5: Registration Closes
October 12:  Conference postponed due to Hurricane Milton

January 3: Abstract Revision and Submission Opens
January 20: Abstract Submission Closes
February 15: Conference (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)

Call for Abstracts

Please use the Abstract Submission, Revision, and Withdrawal Form to make any changes to your presentations. The submission portal will remain open until January 20th.
Form link: https://forms.gle/dxCYE9dZTwLE1uaz5

Registration

Registration will be open until February 1.
Registration Form: https://forms.gle/qACuGCJZ51zZFH4GA

Instructions for Presenters

TALKS
Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by a 5-minute Q&A session. If you plan to use your own laptop, please bring an HDMI adaptor.

POSTERS
The poster boards are 5 feet wide by 4 feet high and will be set up in the auditorium of the Psychology Building at FSU. Please put up your poster upon arrival.

Venue and Accommodation

VENUE AND PARKING
The conference will be held at the Psychology Department Building (1107 West Call Street). Free parking is available in the lots adjacent to the building. Parking at FSU is free on weekends.

 

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Event Schedule and Oral Presentations

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Welcome

9:15 am – 9:40 am

Can attention modulate predictive eye-movements in sentence processing?

Jude Singleton, Hannah Treadway, Claire Kuntz, Emma Lotze, Jorge Valdés Kroff, Theres Grüter, and Edith Kaan (University of Florida)

9:40 am – 10:05 am

Parsing the late closure ambiguity: While Anna dressed Linda joined a feminist organization.

Zhiying Qian (Florida State University) and Gary Dell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

10:05 am – 10:35 am

Break

10:35 am – 11:00 am

Modeling lexical selection response times: Challenging the intrinsic vowel mutability hypothesis.

Michael Bennie, Minghao Zheng, Jian Meng, & Alayo Tripp (University of Florida)

11:00 am –11:25 am

The intonation of wh-questions in Basque Spanish.

Carolina González, Lara Reglero, & Susan Cox (Florida State University)

11:25 am – 12:45 pm

Lunch

12:45 pm – 1:30 pm

Professional development session

1:30 pm – 1:55 pm

L1 and L2 reading of negative polarity items.

Grace deMeurisse & Edith Kaan (University of Florida)

1:55 pm – 2:20 pm

Language and Gender Ideologies: Linguistic Politeness strategies.

Shallom Ogungbade (Florida State University)

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Break

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm

Poster session

4:15 pm

Closing

 

Posters

  1.  Attachment preferences in different language modes: Insights from early Spanish-English bilinguals.
     Matt Anderson (Ohio University) & Antje Muntendam (Florida State University)
  2. Cross-Language interference: L1 attrition or just bilingualism?
    A. Laura Gil & Gretchen Sunderman (Florida State University)
  3. Processing of noun/adjective gender illusions in L2 Spanish speakers.
    Claire Kuntz, Edith Kaan, & Grace deMeurisse (University of Florida)
  4. The processing of moral violation among English speakers.
    Jian Meng, Savannah Chandler, Melanie F. Curado, Claire Kuntz, Olivia R. Shaw, Yidan Zhang, & Edith Kaan (University of Florida)
  5. Individual differences in L2 acquisition of Spanish voiced stop lenition.
    Rachel Meyer, Ratree Wayland, Sophia Vellozzi, & Kevin Tang (University of Florida)
  6. The effect of working memory on error processing in second language learners of English: An EEG study.
    Allison Roggen, Megan Nakamura, & Eleonora Rossi (University of Florida)
  7. The impact of error expectancy on eye movement behaviors for error free sentences.
    Samantha Schwarz & Elizabeth Schotter (University of South Florida)
  8. The neighborhood watch: The influence of orthographic neighborhood size on the foveal load hypothesis in sentence reading. 
    Abigail Spear & Elizabeth Schotter (University of South Florida)
  9. Cognitive control adaptation in code-switching: An ERP study.
    Hannah Treadway, Melanie Curado, Alexandra Dabrowski, Claire Kuntz, Samantha Perez, Kirthana Sane, Olivia Shaw, Edith Kaan, Jorge Valdés Kroff, & Souad Kheder (University of Florida)
  10. Testing the role of heritage language (HL) experience on initial third language (L3) morphosyntactic processing using event-related potentials (ERPs) 
    Cesar Rosales, Eleonora Rossi (University of Florida)
  11. Identifying neurophysiological correlates of opaque and transparent word-processing in monolingual English speakers. 
    Eleonora Rossi, Anna Julia DeMasi, Hailey Vasquez, Michael Miarecki, Grace de Vries (University of Florida)
  12. The neural bases of theory of mind: The role of bilingual typology.
    Hannah Treadway, Zoe Ka Pui Cheung, Ester Navarro, & Eleonora Rossi (University of Florida)
  13. New language training to measure and promote neurocognitive resilience in healthy aging.
    Hannah Treadway, Jeffrey Kunath, Madeline O'Sullivan, & Eleonora Rossi (University of Florida)
  14. The influence of subtle orthographic errors on reading behavior and lexical processing.
    Snezana Trendova, Milca Jaime Brunet, Sara Milligan, & Elizabeth Schotter (University of South Florida)
  15. Analyzing changes in Voice Onset Time during short-term L2 learning in aging. 
    Elijah Zarsadias, Hannah Treadway, Eleonora Rossi (University of Florida)
  16.  Adaptation control processes in code-switching production.
     Demi Zhang, Emiliana Pulido & Edith Kaan (University of Florida)
  17. Neural tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in second language acquisition.
    Yuqing Zhang, Hayley Krush, Zhiying Qian, & Zilong Xie (Florida State University)

 

Sponsors

FSU College of Arts and Sciences
FSU Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
FSU Department of Psychology

Organizing Committee

Michael Kaschak: kaschak@psy.fsu.edu
Antje Muntendam: amuntendam@fsu.edu
Zhiying Qian: zqian@fsu.edu