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Refereed Conference Presentations

(* denotes student collaborators)

  • *Tang, R., Witzel, N. Qiao, X., & Chen, J. (2019). Automatic processing of tonal information during visual word recognition in adult L2 Chinese learners. Paper presented at the 38th Second Language Research Forum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
  • Huynh, J. & Witzel, N. (2019). Morphological decomposition of L2 English compounds: The role of language dominance in Vietnamese-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 38th Second Language Research Forum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
  • *Kirton, W., *Kwak, S., Huynh, J., *Kim, J., & Witzel, N. (2019). Stop sounds in Korean-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 38th Second Language Research Forum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
  • *Tang, R., Witzel, N. Qiao, X., & Chen, J. (2019). The use of tonal information during visual word recognition in adult L2 Chinese learners. Paper presented at Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • *Huynh, J., & Witzel, N. (2018). The grammatical processing of Vietnamese compounds in heritage language and L1-dominant speakers. Paper presented at the the 37th Second Language Research Forum, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
  • *Tang, R., & Witzel, N. (2018). How new L2 words are stored at initial stages of L2 acquisition. Poster presented at the the 37th Second Language Research Forum, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
  • *Huynh, J., & Witzel, N. (2018). Grammatical processing in a heritage language: Evidence from morphological decomposition of Vietnamese compounds. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Delta Hotels Edmonton Centre Suites, Edmonton, Canada.
  • *Tang, R., & Witzel, N. (2018). Do newly-learned L2 words compete with L1 words?. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Delta Hotels Edmonton Centre Suites, Edmonton, Canada.
  • Witzel, J., Witzel, N. , *Shafiee Zargar, E., & Forster, K. I. (2018). Surviving the intervention: ERPs and masked intervenor priming. Poster presented at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Delta Hotels Edmonton Centre Suites, Edmonton, Canada.
  • *Huynh, J., & Witzel, N. (2017). Morphological decomposition of Vietnamese compound words in Vietnamese heritage language speakers. Poster presented at the 36th Second Language Research Forum, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  • *Huynh, J., & Witzel, N. (2017). Qualitative differences in L2 semantic fields between highly proficient early and late Vietnamese-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Penn Linguistics Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  • *Huynh, J., & Witzel, N. (2016). Activating meaning (in)directly from L2 words: Evidence from early and late bilinguals. Poster presented at the Tenth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • *Shafiee Zargar, E., & Witzel, N. (2016). Processing L2 scripts in highly-proficient bilinguals. Poster presented at ARMADILLO, the Southwest Cognition Conference 2016, University of Texas at El Paso, TX.
  • *Huynh, J., & Witzel, N. (2016). How L2 words activate meaning: Evidence from false memory tasks. Poster presented at the 35th Second Language Research Forum, Columbia University, New York.
  • *Shafiee Zargar, E., & Witzel, N. (2014). The timing of morphological decomposition: Evidence from inflected words. Poster presented at the Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Queen’s Landing Hotel, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
  • *Dubey, N., Witzel, J. & Witzel, N. (2014). Asymmetrical translation priming in highly-proficient early bilinguals. Poster presented at the Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Queen’s Landing Hotel, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
  • *Khelm, I., Witzel, N., & Witzel, J. (2013). Form interference effects during silent reading. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
  • *Choi, Y., Witzel, N., & Witzel, J. (2012). Masked onset priming in Korean: Evidence for syllable- and phoneme-level effects. Poster presented at the Eighth International Conference on Mental Lexicon, Universite de Montreal and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • *Cornelius, S., Witzel, J., Witzel, N., Forster, K., & Forster, J. (2012). Testing the viability of webDMDX for masked priming experiments. Poster presented at the Eighth International Conference on Mental Lexicon, Universite de Montreal and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • Forster, K., Witzel, N., & Qiao, X. (2010). Text orientation and transposed letter priming. Poster presented at the Seventh International Conference on Mental Lexicon, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
  • Witzel, N., Witzel, J., & Forster, K. (2010). Comparisons of online reading paradigms: Eye tracking, moving window and maze. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York University, NY.
  • Forster, K., Witzel, N., & Wang, X. (2009). Asymmetries in cross-language masked translation priming. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
  • Witzel, J. D., Witzel, N. O., & Nicol, J. (2009). The reading of structurally ambiguous sentences by English language learners. Paper presented at the Second Language Processing and Parsing: State of the Science Conference, Texas Tech University, TX.
  • Witzel, J. D., & Witzel, N. (2009). Pre-head gap-filling in Japanese sentence processing. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis, CA.
  • Witzel, J. D., Witzel, N., & Nicol, J. (2009). Deeper than shallow: Evidence for structurally-based parsing biases in L2 sentence processing. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis, CA.
  • Forster, K., Qiao, X., & Witzel, N. (2007). Masked priming effects with horizontal and vertical text. Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
  • Witzel, J., & Witzel, N. (2007). The processing of Japanese control sentences. Poster presented at the 1st International Conference on Processing Head-final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY.
  • Witzel, J., Witzel, N., Barto-Sisamout, K., & Nicol, J. (2007). L1 to L2 transfer in bilingual sentence processing. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Second Language Research Forum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  • Witzel, J., & Witzel, N. (2006). Wanna contraction in intermediate-level Japanese learners of English. Paper presented at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2006, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Witzel, J., & Witzel, N. (2004). Phonological recoding in high-level Japanese EFL learners. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Conference of the Second Language Research Forum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
  • Witzel, J., & Witzel, N. (2004). Phonological recoding in intermediate Japanese-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 6th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society of Language Sciences, Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Witzel, J., & Witzel, N. O. (2004). Conceptual access from the L2 in less-fluent and fluent bilinguals. Paper presented at the 5th Tokyo Conference of Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Witzel, J., & Ouchi, N. (2003). Access to the concept from the L2 in bilinguals. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Second Language Research Forum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
  • Ouchi, N. (2003). The translation asymmetry in unbalanced bilinguals. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.

Local Conference Presentations

(* denotes student collaborators)

  • *Kwak, S., *Tang, R., Witzel, N. (2019). Is scissors made up of scissor and a plural marker? Poster presented at the 11th Annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
  • *Tang, R., Witzel, N. Qiao, X., & Chen, J. (2019). Is tonal information automatically processed during L2 visual word recognition? Evidence from adult L2 Chinese learners. Paper presented at the 11th Annual DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
  • *Kwak, K., *Kirton, W., *Huynh, J., Kim, J., & Witzel, N. (2019). How Korean-English bilinguals represent stop sounds in their two languages. Paper presented at the Cultural Constructions Conference 2019: Language and Culture in Contact, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Dover, M., *Williams, E., & Witzel, N. (2019). The time course of morphological processing in visual word recognition. Poster presented at the 25th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Kwak, K., *Kirton, W., *Huynh, J., Kim, J., & Witzel, N. (2019). Can Korean-English bilinguals distinguish Korean and English stop sounds? Poster presented at the 25th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Tang, R., Witzel, N. Qiao, X., & Chen, J. (2019). The use of tonal information during visual word recognition in adult L2 Chinese learners. Paper presented at the 25th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Tang, R., & Witzel, N. (2018). How new L2 words are stored at initial stages of L2 acquisition. Poster presented at the 10th DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Texas A&M University at Commerce, Commerce, TX.
  • *Shafiee Zargar, E., & Witzel, N. (2018). How L2 words in L2 scripts are represented: Evidence from beard and bread. Poster presented at the 24th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Tang, R., & Witzel, N. (2018). Bilingual lexical organization: Evidence from newly-learnt L2 words. Poster presented at the 24th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Shafiee Zargar, E., & Witzel, N. (2014). Transposed-letter similarity effects across inflectional morpheme boundaries. Paper presented at the 21st Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Khelm, I., Witzel, N., & Witzel, J. (2013). Phonological and orthographic interference during silent reading. Poster presented at the 20th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.
  • *Khelm, I., Witzel, N. O., & Witzel, J. (2012). Phonological interference during silent reading. Paper presented at the 2012 DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.

Invited Talks

  • Witzel, N. (2013). How second language words function in memory. The Fifth Annual Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX.
  • Witzel, N. (2013). Unmasking the bilingual lexicon. Linguistics Colloquium, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
  • Witzel, N. O. (2009). First and second language words in memory. SLAT Colloquium, University of Arizona.
  • Forster, K., Qiao, X., Witzel, N., Wang, X., & Chen, C-C. (2007). Masked priming studies in East-Asian languages. Cognitive Science Brown Bag Talk, University of Arizona.

Community Outreach Presentations

  • Witzel, N. (2017). The brain and second language acquisition. English for Speakers of Other Languages, Tarrant Community College, TX.
  • Witzel, N. O. (2003). Teaching English pronunciation to elementary school children. Arakawaku Kyoiku Iinkai (Arakawa Ward Education Committee), Tokyo, Japan.