@dkcayado
🧠 Psycholinguist 🧑🏻💻 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow @rhulpsychology.bsky.social interested in morphology, visual word recognition and reading acquisition https://sites.google.com/view/dk-cayado/about-me
Overall, we show that morphological processing is much more robust and flexible than what has been previously hypothesized and challenge existing theories that require strict edge-alignment in visual morphological processing.
Second, we show that affixes are recognised in multiple positions within the letter-strings, suggesting a more flexible positional information encoding in the mental lexicon.
Using Tagalog infixation as a test-case, we first provide masked affix priming data showing that infixes, which are affixes inserted within the stem, are successfully activated during visual word recognition, thereby suggesting that edge-alignment is not a critical that determines affix activation.
🚨New preprint
A recent model proposes that morphological processing is constrained by edge-alignment—only stems and affixes at word edges are subject to decomposition and subsequent activation. We investigate whether edge-alignment is a universal constraint that affects affix activation.
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We are pleased to welcome the following keynote speakers to WoProc 2026 in Lisbon:
– Davide Crepaldi (University of Pavia, Italy) @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social
– Jana Reifegerste (Georgetown University, USA)
www.woproc2026.com
Abstract submission by 14 Feb, final deadline 📢
We will also hold ...
Cool study with the Mongolian language (traditional Mongolian script): link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Yan, M., Min, A., Bao, Y. B., & Kuperman, V. (2026). Eye movements are guided by morphological complexity in traditional Mongolian reading. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33(1), 4.
📢 NEW PAPER OUT! We show that the masked frequency attenuation effect is real, but its magnitude is insensitive to prime duration. This strongly supports a two-stage model of word recognition.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Psycholinguistics #CognitiveScience #WordRecognition #NYU #NYUAD
Brilliant eye-tracking study on statistics/structure 👀
"We conclude that linguistic knowledge guides moment-by-moment reading in two dissociable ways: Forward reading is driven by the word’s surprisal, and backward reading reflects syntactic structure building operations."
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A brief blog about what kind of predictions for neuroscience are possible (in principle) to be provided by theoretical linguistics.
elliot-murphy.com/2025/11/27/p...
🚨New preprint with @kathyrastle.bsky.social
We quantified how linguistically and typologically diverse the morphological processing and learning literature is. We also discussed how the heavy focus on English morphology limits theoretical progress.
Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Join us for our next seminar! We're excited to host Hsieh Cheng-Yu (University of London)
He'll discuss "Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading," exploring how we process ambiguity & meaning consistency
🗓️ 27th Oct ⏰ 2PM (CET)📍UniMiB 💻 meet.google.com/zvk-owhv-tfw
Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...
I will be giving a talk at Oxford (@education.ox.ac.uk) on the 21st of October! Very excited! Drop by if you’re in the area.
www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...
** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Our paper is finally out online! Find it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#linguistics
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
For those who couldn't attend, the recording of Prof. Harald Baayen's seminar on morphological productivity and the Discriminative Lexicon Model is now available on our YouTube channel.
Watch the full presentation here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7G...
The portals for the next EPS scientific meeting (University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026) are now open!
The portals for this meeting opened on Monday 8th September at 10am (UK time) and will remain open for at least 24 hours.
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
eps.ac.uk/submit-an-ab...
At-a-glance processing of syntactic dependencies in minimal DANISH two-word sentences by @simonekrogh.bsky.social!
Sentence-superiority and dependency effects emerge in fronto-temporal cortex from ~230ms.
The next EPS scientific meeting will be held at University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026.
The portals for this meeting will open on Monday (8th September) at 10am (UK time)!
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
New paper out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (open access)!
Using behavioral masked priming and single word reading with concurrent MEG recording, we investigate how our brain spots the tiny pieces of words (a.k.a. morphemes)—even when they’re playing hide-and-seek. 👀
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2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
SAVE THE DATE! Join us in Lisbon next year for the International Word Processing Conference (6–8 July 2026)!
WoProc continues the legacy of MoProc―a conference that, since 1999, has brought together researchers working on morphological processing.
www.woproc2026.com
Excited to share that our work, "Changes in auditory evoked responses at different levels of linguistic processing in adults and school-age children: An MEG study," is now out in Neuropsychologia!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVCr_fKKp...
Thank you!
My 2nd MEG paper just got accepted for publication at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🕺🏻
Using Tagalog as a test-case, we show that the brain can break down complex words into morphemes, despite obscured/opaque morphological boundaries.
Can’t wait to share this paper.
Congratulations, Dr. Lai! @marcochlai.bsky.social
New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social
The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠
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