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SUMMARY:Tracking the Untrackable: How the Human Mind Recognizes Broken\, O
 bscured\, and Shape-Shifting Morphemes in Tagalog  - : Dr. Dave Kenneth Ta
 yao Cayado
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251021T130000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251021T140000
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DESCRIPTION:The majority of words across the world’s languages consist o
 f smaller meaningful units\, or morphemes\, which combine and recombine to
  create new words (e.g.\, mis-trust-ful-ness). Previous research shows tha
 t such words are processed in terms of these smaller units. Although psych
 olinguistics has made important advances in understanding this process of 
 morphological decomposition\, the field currently faces a serious limitati
 on: most of what we know is based on English and other Indo-European langu
 ages (Cayado & Rastle\, in prep). This reliance constrains our understandi
 ng of how morphological decomposition takes place and which linguistic fac
 tors modulate this process. Existing models of morphological processing va
 riously assume that positional information\, phonological and orthographic
  changes\, phonological variability\, and consistency in the orthographic 
 and phonological forms of morphemes play a critical role during decomposit
 ion. \n\nIn this talk\, I will present a series of behavioural and magneto
 encephalography (MEG) experiments that systematically test how these lingu
 istic properties influence morphological decomposition. First\, I exploit 
 Tagalog infixation and pseudo-infixation to investigate the role of affix 
 positional information in morphological processing (Cayado et al.\, 2023\;
  in prep). Second\, I examine morphophonological changes and variability i
 n Tagalog—specifically nasal assimilation and substitution—to test how
  such changes\, which obscure the boundary between prefix and stem\, and t
 he variability in their application\, modulate the decomposition of morpho
 logically complex words (Cayado et al.\, 2024\, 2025). Third\, I use Tagal
 og reduplication to examine how mismatches between orthographic and phonol
 ogical forms affect morpheme recognition and activation (Wray et al.\, 202
 2\; Cayado et al.\, in prep). \n\nI will conclude by discussing how eviden
 ce from Tagalog challenges existing models of visual word recognition and 
 outlining my plans to extend this work to reading acquisition\, with the g
 oal of informing the inclusion of morphology in reading curricula. \n\nBio
 : Dr. Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research
  Fellow at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, Department of Psycholog
 y. His research delves into how morphologically complex words are processe
 d and represented in the human mind and brain\, with a particular focus on
  Tagalog. Employing behavioral experiments and neuroimaging techniques lik
 e magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography\, he investigates the 
 cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying morphological decomposition acr
 oss different modalities. Dr. Cayado earned his PhD in Psycho/Neurolinguis
 tics from Queen Mary University of London in 2024\, where he explored the 
 flexibility of morphological processing models through the lens of Tagalog
  morphology. \n\n\nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/1
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 . Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado
LOCATION:15 Norham Gardens (Seminar Room G/H (Department of Education) and
  MS Teams)\, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
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