All times in British Summer Time (BST). You can click on the title of each talk to view the abstract or download a complete copy of the Book of Abstracts as a pdf.

• Registration is in the Richard Price Atrium.
• All talks are in the Lecture theatre (G037).
• Refreshments and lunch will be served in the Atrium.
• Poster sessions will be held in the conference room (G007).
• We also have a work area reserved (G025/036) – please check signage.

Wednesday, May 22^nd, 2024 (pre-conference workshops)

8:30-11:30	Latent Variable Modelling   Emily Lowthian (Swansea University)
14:00-16:00	How to Engage the Public with (Language) Science Sharon Unsworth (Radboud University)

Thursday, May 23^rd, 2024

08:15-08:45	Registration
08:45-09:00	Welcome
09:00-10:00	Plenary 1: Gwennan Higham Developing personal integration projects through a multilingual Welsh language provision for adult migrants Datblygu prosiectau integreiddio personol drwy ddarpariaeth Gymraeg amlieithog i fewnfudwyr
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12.00	Carrie N. Jackson and Theres Gruter: Whether prediction and adaptation lead to learning among beginning L2 learners Serge Minor and Natalia Mitrofanova: Crosslinguistic influence in child bilingual acquisition: A Visual World eye-tracking study on grammatical case and aspect processing by German-Russian and Spanish-Russian bilinguals James Turner and Lewis Baker: Phonological effects in predictive processing of syntax: eye-tracking evidence from L1 Mandarin speakers in the UK
12:00-13:00	Lunch break (+ optional Welsh class in the lecture theatre)
13:00-14:30	Poster session 1
14:30-15:30	Adel Chaouch-Orozco and Fernando Martín-Villena: Network science tools unveil the early stages of L1 lexical attrition Wanyin Li, Bene Bassetti, and Steven Frisson: The effects of changing the word order of collocations on L2 sentence processing: an eye-tracking study
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Trisha Thomas, Andrea Takahesu Tabori, Antje Stoehr, and Ying Xu: The impact of bilingual language proficiency on automatic speech recognition accuracy in children Anamaria Bentea and Theodoros Marinis: Wh-questions in Romanian Child Heritage Speakers – Investigating the Use of Differential Object Marking and Number Agreement in Comprehension and Production
17.00-18.00	Plenary 2: Holger Hopp How Sentence Processing can support L2 Learning: Evidence from Structural Priming Sut y gall Prosesu Brawddegau gefnogi Dysgu L2: Tystiolaeth o Breimio Strwythurol
18:30-21:00	Conference dinner

Friday, May 24^th, 2024

9:00-10:00	Plenary 3: Christos Pliatsikas Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity: Taking stock and moving forward Dwyieithrwydd a Niwroblastigedd: Ystyried a symud ymlaen
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12.00	Alex Sheehan, Doug Saddy, and Christos Pliatsikas: Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from resting-state electroencephalogram Chih Yeh, Caroline F. Rowland, and Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares: How bilingualism influences language processing in the developing brain: A systematic review of the neurobiological evidence Ioannis Iliopoulos and Claudia Felser: Linking offline judgements and ERP responses in the L1 and L2 processing of filler-gap dependencies
12:00-13:00	Lunch break (+ optional Welsh class in the lecture theatre)
13:00-14:30	Poster session 2
14:30-15:30	Liz Smeets: Crosslinguistic influence can affect L1 feature representations: evidence from CLLD Chantal van Dijk, Gerrit Jan Kootstra, and Sharon Unsworth: Cross-linguistic priming of relative clause comprehension in English-Dutch and German-Dutch bilingual children: Evidence for cumulative priming
15:30-16.00	Coffee break
16.00-17.00	Ilaria Venagli, Theo Marinis, and Tanja Kupisch: Biliteracy and L2 proficiency modulate reading strategies and reading-related skills in late L2 learners with and without dyslexia Floor van den Berg, Raoul Buurke, Jelle Brouwer, Hanneke Loerts, Remco Knooihuizen, Martijn Bartelds, Martijn Wieling, and Merel Keijzer: The relationship between bilingual engagement and cognitive aging in regional minority-majority language contexts: A Lifelines study
17:00-18:00	Plenary 4: Sharon Unsworth Priming cross-linguistic influence and predicting priming: Evidence from bilingual children Preimio dylanwad trawsieithyddol a rhagfynegi preimio: Tystiolaeth gan blant dwyieithog
18:00-18:15	Conference closing