14th AWLL international workshop on writing systems and literacy
Theme:writing/reading interface
Dates:10-12 November 2023
Venue:Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
Invited speakers:Vito Pirrelli, Kathy Rastle, David Share
Organizers:Terry Joyce, Lynne Cahill, Dorit Ravid
Programme committee:Terry Joyce, Lynne Cahill, Dorit Ravid
Related materials: Programme+Abstracts [PDF];
Programme [link to lower section with presentation abstracts, PDFs and presentation recordings];
Business meeting minutes
AWLL14 Photos [link to lower section]

Programme [with presentation abstracts, PDFs, and recordings]
Day 1: Friday, 10 November 2023
09:15-09:45Check-in
09:45-10:00Opening remarks
10:00-11:30 Oral session 1 [chair: Keisuke Honda]
10:00-10:30 Terry Joyce; Hisashi Masuda; Chikako Fujita
Japanese rubi: Finessing the writing/reading/meaning interface [abstract; PDF; recording]
10:30-11:00 Jon W. Carr; Kathleen Rastle
Why do languages tolerate heterography? An experimental investigation of the cultural evolution of informative orthographies [abstract; PDF; recording]
11:00-11:30 Dimitrios Meletis
Literacy fosters normativity: Exploring how material and functional features of writing relate to linguistic norms [abstract; PDF; recording]
11:30-12:00Break
12:00-13:00 Keynote 1 [chair: Dorit Ravid]
Vito Pirrelli
Is the finger-voice span an indicator of reading proficiency? [abstract; PDF; recording]
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:15 Poster session 1
Wieke Harmsen; Martijn Bentum; Ferdy Hubers; Roeland van Hout; Catia Cucchiarini; Helmer Strik
The reliability of teacher evaluations of reading skills of primary school pupils [abstract; PDF]
Nikolina Runje; Ana Matić Škorić; Jelena Kuvač Kraljević; Mirjana Lenček; Antonia Štefanec
Phonological and writing skills at the end of the second grade in Croatian speaking children with and without dyslexia [abstract; PDF]
Koji Miwa; David Allen; Kelly Pasich
Effects of handwriting and keyboarding on the processing of morphographic characters [abstract; PDF]
Jordan Gallant
Morphological learning in an online language app: Evidence from Lingvist users [abstract; PDF]
15:15-16:45 Oral session 2 [chair: David Roberts]
15:15-15:45
[online]
Adi Shechter, Sivan Medina, David L. Share, Amit Yashar
Language-universal and script-specific factors in the recognition of letters in visual crowding: The effects of lexicality, hemifield, and transitional probabilities in a right-to-left script [abstract; PDF; recording]
15:45-16:15 Constanze Weth
Same but different? Syntax encoded on the written word across languages: The example of French plural spelling and German noun capitalization [abstract; PDF; recording]
16:15-16:45
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad; Rachel Schiff
A longitudinal study of the long-term effect of a multi-domain diglossia-centred literacy intervention in kindergarten on the reading skills of Arabic-speaking children in the 3rd grade [abstract; PDF; recording]
16:45-17:15Break
17:15-18:45 Oral session 3 [chair: David Share]
17:15-17:45 Dorit Ravid; Ronit Naydic Rosen
Written prepositional prefixes in Hebrew narratives: morpho-orthographic and semantic analyses [abstract; PDF; recording]
17:45-18:15
[online]
Hanadi Abu Ahmad; David Share
Reading instruction, CVs-based or phonemes-based method? An experimental study among Arab pre-school children [abstract; recording]
18:15-18:45 Nikita Bezrukov; Ronan Soni
Emergence of featurality as a byproduct of script inheritance [abstract; PDF; recording]
18:45-19:15Transfer to conference reception
19:15-21:15 Conference reception

Day 2: Saturday, 11 November 2023
10:00-11:30 Oral session 4 [chair: Vito Pirrelli]
10:00-10:30 Erich Fox Tree
A comic guide to the writing and reading of manual gestures in Ancient Maya iconography using indigenous sign languages [abstract; PDF; recording]
10:30-11:00 Jordan Gallant; Laurie Feldman; Gary Libben
Understanding the time course of written compound word production: Implications for theories of meaning and morphology in lexical processing [abstract; PDF; recording]
11:00-11:30 Antonio Perri; Luciano Perondi; Leonardo Romei
Does non-linear arrangement of written units hinder the writing/reading interface? Some counterexamples providing a negative answer, from Aztec script conventions to specific visual patterns in European texts [abstract; PDF; recording]
11:30-12:00Break
12:00-13:00 Keynote 2 [chair: Terry Joyce]
Kathy Rastle
Understanding reading, understanding writing [abstract; PDF; recording]
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:15 Poster session 2
Jon W. Carr; Davide Crepaldi
Readers target words where they expect to find maximal information based on the structure of the lexicon [abstract; PDF]
Yvonne Knospe; Maria Levlin; Maria Rosenberg
Morphology and variance in word reading and spelling among poor readers of Swedish in grade two and four [abstract; PDF]
Kathleen Carroll; Fiona Lyddy
The contribution of handwriting over typing to text quality and understanding of the writing task: the role of transactional (but not transmissional) writing beliefs [abstract; PDF]
Benjamin K. Tsou
The origins of the Chinese writing system: Explorations in linguistic archeology and sociolinguistics [abstract; PDF]
15:15-16:45 Oral session 5 [chair: Constanze Weth]
15:15-15:45 Zeynep Arslan; Julia Edeleva
Vocabulary knowledge and word recognition at the reading/spelling interface [abstract; PDF]
15:45-16:15
[online]
Nancy Joubran-Awadie; Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad
The morphological distance in Arabic diglossia: Insights from a longitudinal study (K – G3) [abstract; PDF; recording]
16:15-16:45
[online]
Rana Yassin; David Share; Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad
Learning to spell in Arabic: The impact of script-specific visual-orthographic features [abstract; PDF; recording]
16:45-17:15Break
17:15-18:15 Oral session 6 [chair: Koji Miwa]
17:15-17:45 Keisuke Honda
How alphabetic is Japanese rōmaji? Implications for the description and classification of writing systems [abstract; PDF; recording]
17:45-18:15 Amalia E. Gnanadesikan
The representation of distinctive features in writing systems: Omission and commission [abstract; PDF; recording]
18:15-18:30Break
18:30-19:15 AWLL business meeting
19:15-19:45Transfer to conference reception
19:00-20:30 Conference dinner [followed by 20:30-21:20 drinks]

Day 3: Sunday, 12 November 2023
10:00-11:30 Oral session 7 [chair: Kathy Rastle]
10:00-10:30 Peter Horn; Guido Nottbusch
How far does the awareness go? Results from a written plural preference task on analogous and non-analogous novel noun plurals in German [abstract; PDF; recording]
10:30-11:00 Wieke Harmsen; Roeland van Hout; Helmer Strik; Catia Cucchiarini
Exploring a joint approach for analyzing reading and writing errors in Dutch [abstract; PDF; recording]
11:00-11:30 Joanna Kamykowska; Magdalena Łuniewska-Etenkowska; Ewa Haman
Connections between phonological awareness, poor reading and poor oral language in early school-age children: results from an (almost) transparent orthography [abstract; PDF; recording]
11:30-12:00Break
12:00-13:00 Keynote 3 [chair: Lynne Cahill]
David Share
Extricating reading science from entrenched Anglocentrism, Eurocentrism, and Alphabetism and embracing global diversity [abstract; PDF; recording]
13:00-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:30 Oral session 8 [chair: Dimitrios Meletis]
14:00-14:30 Hye K. Pae
Easy decoding yet difficult encoding: What does the asymmetry between reading and writing in Korean Hangul mean for grapholinguistics? [abstract; PDF; recording]
14:30-15:00 Rachel Garton
Literacy development for language revitalization: Exploring literacy processing in the endangered language context [abstract; PDF; recording]
15:00-15:30 David Roberts; Amalia Bar-On; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Heterophonic homography in African and Semitic: Comparing the functions of tones and vowels [abstract; PDF; recording]
15:30-16:00Break
16:00-17:30 Oral session 9 [chair: Amalia Gnanadesikan]
16:00-16:30
[online]
Ariel Gabbay
The patterns of the qal conjugation in Mishnaic Hebrew: Between the first vocalized editions and the oral reading traditions [abstract; PDF; recording]
16:30-17:00 Andrea Santamaria
Readability determines the presence of writing: materials, light effects, and sign sequences on Cretan Hieroglyphic seals [abstract; PDF; recording]
17:00-17:30 Lynne Cahill
The North-South divide in Middle English spelling conventions [abstract; PDF; recording]
17:30-18:00Break
18:00-18:45 Panel discussion [panelists: Vito Pirrelli, Kathy Rastle, David Share; recording]
18:45-19:00 Closing remarks [plus group photograph]

AWLL14 Photos
2023 Group
AWLL14 participants [onsite after closing remarks]

Day 1 presentations
2023Opening1 2023Opening2
Opening remarks | Matthew Wilson (TUJ Dean) Opening remarks | Terry Joyce (AWLL president)
2023D1O1S1 2023D1O1S2
Oral session 1 | Terry Joyce, et al. Oral session 1 | Jon W. Carr; Kathleen Rastle
2023D1O1S3 2023D1K1
Oral session 1 | Dimitrios Meletis Keynote 1 | Vito Pirrelli
2023D1P1P1 2023D1P1P2
Poster session 1 | Wieke Harmsen, et al. Poster session 1 | Nikolina Runje, et al.
2023D1P1P3 2023D1P1P4I
Poster session 1 | Koji Miwa, et al. Poster session 1 | Jordan Gallant
2023D1O2S1 2023D1O2S2
Oral session 2 (screenshot) | Adi Shechter, et al. Oral session 2 | Constanze Weth
2023D1O2S3 2023D1O3S1
Oral session 2 | Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, Rachel Schiff Oral session 3 | Dorit Ravid, Ronit Naydic Rosen
2023D1O3S2 2023D1O3S3
Oral session 3 (screenshot) | Hanadi Abu Ahmad, David Share Oral session 3 | Nikita Bezrukov; Ronan Soni

Day 1 interactions
2023D1Lunch1 2023D1Lunch2
Day 1 lunch Day 1 lunch
2023D1Reception1 2023D1Reception2
Day 1 reception Day 1 reception
2023D1Reception3 2023D1Reception4
Day 1 reception Day 1 reception

Day 2 presentations
2023D2O4S1 2023D2O4S2
Oral session 4 | Erich Fox Tree Oral session 4 | Jordan Gallant, et al.
2023D2O4S3 2023D2K2
Oral session 4 | Leonardo Romei, et al. Keynote 2 | Kathy Rastle
2023D2P2P1 2023D2P2P2
Poster session 2 | Jon W. Carr, Davide Crepaldi Poster session 2 | Yvonne Knospe, et al.
2023D2P2P3 2023D2P2P4
Poster session 2 | Kathleen Carroll, Fiona Lyddy Poster session 2 | Benjamin K. Tsou
2023D2O5S1 2023D2O5S2
Oral session 5 | Zeynep Arslan, Julia Edeleva Oral session 5 (screenshot) | Nancy Joubran-Awadie, Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad
2023D2O5S3 2023D2O6S1
Oral session 5 (screenshot) | Rana Yassin, et al. Oral session 6 | Keisuke Honda
2023D2O6S2 2023AWLL14BM
Oral session 6 | Amalia E. Gnanadesikan AWLL business meeting

Day 2 interactions
2023D2Breaks 2023D2Gallery
Day 1 lunch Day 1 lunch

Day 3 presentations
2023D3O7S1 2023D3O7S2
Oral session 7 | Peter Horn, Guido Nottbusch Oral session 7 | Wieke Harmsen, et al.
2023D3O7S3 2023D3K3
Oral session 7 | Joanna Kamykowska, et al. Keynote 3 | David Share
2023D3O8S1 2023D3O8S2
Oral session 8 | Hye K. Pae Oral session 8 | Rachel Garton
2023D3O8S3 2023D3O9S1
Oral session 8 | David Roberts, et al. Oral session 9 (screenshot) | Ariel Gabbay
2023D3O9S2 2023D3O9S3
Oral session 9 | Andrea Santamaria Oral session 9 | Lynne Cahill
2023D3Panel
AWLL14 Panel discussion (3 keynote speakers)
2023D3Closing
AWLL14 Closing remarks

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