Research

Publications: 

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Lai, M.C.H., Chong, A., & Stockall, L. (2025). Breaking down complex words is unaffected by morphological boundary opacity: evidence from MEG and behavioral experiments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [link]

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Chacón, D., Lai, M.C.H., Matar, S., & Stockall, L. (2024). MEG evidence for left temporal and orbitofrontal involvement in breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together. CORTEX. [link]

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., & Stockall, L. (2023). Does linear position matter for morphological processing? Evidence from a Tagalog masked priming experiment. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. [link]

Cayado, D.K.T., & Chan, R.K.W. (2023). The influence of prior linguistic knowledge on L2 semantic implicit learning: evidence from Cantonese-English bilinguals. Language Learning. [link]

Chan, R.K.W., Cayado, D.K.T., & Hui, B. (Accepted). Covert activation of bilinguals' non-current language and implicit learning. Language Learning.

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Chong, A., & Stockall, L. (in preparation). Morpho-orthographic decomposition does not always require exhaustivity: Evidence from masked inflectional affix priming experiments. To be submitted to Cognition.

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Chong, A., & Stockall, L. (in preparation). Can humans hear morphemes even when they are obscured and variable? Evidence from auditory masked priming. To be submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Cayado, D.K.T., & Rastle, K. (in preparation). Morphology in understudied languages, and what it means for theories of morphological learning and processing. To be submitted to Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Cayado, D.K.T., Pizarro-Guevara, J., Wray, S., & Stockall, L. (in progress). When nothing matches but structure: Morphological priming without shared form or grammar.

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Chong, A., & Stockall, L. (in progress). Does morphological boundary opacity affect decomposition? EEG evidence from Tagalog prefixation.

Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., & Stockall, L. (in progress). Does alignment of morphemes modulate early, form-based decomposition? EEG evidence from prefixation, infixation, and suffixation.

Invited Talks: 

Tagalog as a window to the mental lexicon (June, 2025). Mapua University, Manila, Philippines.

Morphemes Across Modalities: Visual and Auditory Processing of Tagalog Morphophonology (2025, June). De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.

Neurolinguistics Seminar: How does the human brain spot morphemes? (2025, March). The University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Tagalog morphology as a window to the mental lexicon (2025, March). University of California, Los Angeles, USA. 

How are Tagalog words processed in the human mind and brain (2024, November). Exploring Tagalog Linguistics: Introduction to Research on a Philippine Language. University of Zurich, Switzerland, and De La Salle Univerity, Manila.

Morphological processing in Tagalog (2024, October). The International Meeting on Quantifying Semantic-Orthographic Regularities Across Languages (QuaSemO). Munich, Germany.

Can the human mind recognize broken, obscured, and misaligned morphemes? (2024, April). Department of Linguistics, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.

Towards a more flexible model of morphological decomposition: the case of Tagalog morphology (2023, September). A talk at the Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, USA. [slides]

What can morphological processing theories learn from Tagalog morphology? (2023, June). A talk at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of  London, Egham, UK. [Slides]

Psychological bases of morphological decomposition in Tagalog (2023, April). A talk at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. [Slides]

Recent Conference Presentations:

Can humans hear morphemes even when they are obscured and variable? Evidence from Tagalog nasal assimilation and nasal substitution (2025, June). A talk presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) Meeting, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Early morphological decomposition is robust to less visible, inconsistent, and obscured morphemes (2025, April). A talk presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Can the visual system recognize obscured morphemes? Behavioral and MEG evidence from Tagalog prefixation (2024, September). A talk presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 30, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. [slides]

Breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together involve the left occipitotemporal and orbitofrontal regions: MEG evidence from Tagalog (2024, September). A poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 30, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. [poster]

Seeing affixes everywhere? Evidence for a position-independent recognition of affixes (2024, July). A talk presented at the International Word Processing Conference (WoProc), Belgrade, Serbia. [slides]

MEG evidence for left temporal and orbitofrontal involvement in breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together (2023, November). A poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference, Marseille, France. [poster]

Breaking down complex words is unaffected by morphological boundary opacity: evidence from MEG and behavioral experiments. (2023, November). A poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference, Marseille, France. [poster]

Does linear position of affixes matter during early morphological processing? Evidence from Tagalog masked priming (2023, November). A talk presented at the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association conference 30, Lund, Sweden. [slides]

Seeing affixes everywhere: position-independent recognition of Tagalog infixes (2023, September). A poster to be presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 29, San Sebastian, Spain. [Poster]

The influence of prior linguistic knowledge on second language semantic implicit learning: evidence from Cantonese-English bilinguals (2023, June). A talk presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Sydney, Australia. [Slides]

Localising and Investigating Morphological Decomposition in Tagalog: an MEG study (2022, October). A poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, USA. [Poster]

Morphological recomposition in Tagalog: support for a two-stage model (2022, September). A talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 28, University of York, UK. [Slides]

Breaking down, breaking down: Tagalog infixed, prefixed, and suffixed words are automatically decomposed in visual word processing (2022, September). A poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 28, University of York, UK. [Poster]

Morphological decomposition in Tagalog: a masked priming study on infixation, prefixation, and suffixation (2022, June). A talk presented at Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) conference, University of Manchester, UK (virtually). [Slides]

Cayado, D.K. & Chan, K.W. (2021, August). Language co-activation influences the development of new implicit linguistic knowledge in bilinguals. A talk presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Paris, France (virtually). [Slides]

Cayado, D.K. (2019, June). Covert translation in the implicit learning of form-meaning connections. Talk presented at the Statistics for Linguists Summer School, University of Birmingham, UK.