37.897, Confs: Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (France)
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Subject: 37.897, Confs: Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (France)
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Date: 03-Mar-2026
From: Tamara Serrano Romero [tamara.serrano at uab.cat]
Subject: Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition
Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition
Short Title: BiLaP 2026
Date: 23-Apr-2026 - 24-Apr-2026
Location: Bayonne, France
Meeting URL:
https://clt.uab.cat/activitats_clt/workshop-bilingual-language-processing-bridging-human-and-artificial-cognition-bilap-2026/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Workshop on Bilingual Language Processing:
Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (BiLaP 2026)
Time: April 23-24, 2026
Place: Auditorium, Campus De La Nive, Uppa.
Thursday, April 23
9.00-9.20 Registration
9.20-9.30 Welcome [Urtzi Etxeberria & Evelina Leivada]
[session chair: Evelina Leivada]
9.30-10.30 Blended Conceptual Representations in the Bilingual
Mind
Invited speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta
10.30-11.00 Preliminary Analysis of Brain-to-Speech Stimulus
Reconstruction on Bilingual Data
Ekain Arrieta, Vincenzo Verbeni, Ander Barrena and Eneko Agirre
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
[session chair: Urtzi Etxeberria]
11.30-12.00 Keeping Syntax in Check? Predictive Agreement
Attraction Effects in Aging Bilingual
Victoria Cano-Sánchez, Zuzanna Fuchs, Giuseppe Benigno and Pedro
Guijarro-Fuentes
12.00-12.30 Assessing the Comprehension and Appreciation of Irony
in Bilectal Italian Speakers: A Novel Experimental Approach
Federica Longo, Alessandra Zappoli and Alessandra Maria Falzone
12.30-13.30 Embracing Variation in Bilingual Language Processing:
New Opportunities and Challenges across Diverse Experimental Paradigms
and Bilingual Communities
Invited speaker: Camilla Masullo
13.30-15.00 Lunch break
[session chair: Maia Duguine]
15.00-15.30 Processing Effects of Code-switching in Humans and LLM
Marina Sokolova, Natalia Moskvina and Naiara Mirio e Silva
15.30-16.00 Neural Mechanisms of Syntactic Transfer in Bilingual
Production
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu and Elliot Murphy
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
[session chair: Camilla Masullo]
16.30-17.00 Do AI-Generated Biases Influence Human Cognition?
Preliminary Evidence from a Reaction-Time Study
Tamara Serrano, Nikoleta Pantelidou, Raquel Montero, Natalia Moskvina,
Paolo Morosi and Evelina Leivada
17.00-17.30 Multilingual Variation in Language Comprehension in
Large Language Models
Natalia Moskvina, Raquel Montero, Masaya Yoshida, Ferdy Hubers, Paolo
Morosi, Walid Irhaymi, Jin Yan, Tamara Serrano, Elena Pagliarini,
Fritz Günther, Evelina Leivada
17.30-18.30 Improving Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
Invited speaker: Julen Etxaniz
20 Dinner [Location TBA]
Friday, April 24
[session chair: Arrate Isasi-Isamendi]
09.30-10.30 Natural Code-Switching, Artificial Limits: Identifying
the Evaluation Bottlenecks of AI
Invited speaker: M. Carmen Parafita-Couto
10.30-11.00 Challenges of Code-Switching Generation and Evaluation
with Large Language Models
Maite Heredia, Jeremy Barnes and Aitor Soroa
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
[session chair: Aritz Irurtzun]
11.30-12.00 Does Pragmatic Reasoning Default to English? Evidence
from Bangla–English Bilinguals and LLMs
Monowar Hossain, Nishat Raihan and Hakim Arif
12.00-12.30 Conditional Semantics, Missing Pragmatics: On How LLMs
Interpret Conditionals
Paolo Morosi, Nikoleta Pantelidou, Elena Pagliarini, and Evelina
Leivada
12.30-13.00 Scalar Implicatures in Multilingual Large Language
Models
Raquel Montero, Natalia Moskvina, Paolo Morosi, Tamara Serrano, Elena
Pagliarini and Evelina Leivada
10.30-11.00 Color-Emotion Associations in ChatGPT 4.o: A
Comparison Between Spanish and Mandarin Instructions
Mingshan Xu and Jingtao Zhu
13.30-15.30 Lunch break
[session chair: Evelina Leivada]
15.30-16.00 Positive Polarity Sensitivity in Greek: Experimental
Evidence from Adverbial Preverbs in Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot
Greek
Mina Giannoula, Kleanthes Grohmann & Michalis Michaelides
16.00-16.30 Bilingual Language Processing in ELF Medical
Discourse: Lexico-Grammatical Constraints in a Minority-Language
Context
Olga Freimane
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
[session chair: Urtzi Etxeberria]
17.00-18.00 Acquisition of Word Order and Case Marking in
Bilingual Contexts
Invited speaker : Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi
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