• PD Dr. Eva Smolka

    I am interested in how experience with language affects cognition in the form of memory and perception. I am investigating language processing in healthy adults (monolingual and bilingual), language acquisition in children, and language loss in patients with aphasia. To this end, I am using interdisciplinary methods from experimental psychology, the neurosciences, and linguistics. 

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    "What is a Verb?"

    From 26th to 28th July 2017 the internationale conference "What is a Verb? - International Conference on the Cross-Linguistic Comparison in Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages (CoGS)", organised by Dr. Eva Smolka and Prof. Dr. Dorit Ravid, takes place in Constance.

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New project

DFG-Excellency Initiative of the International Office, University of Konstanz (1.450€): What is a Root? – An International Conference on the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Germanic and Semitic Languages. Pls: Eva Smolka (Konstanz) und Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv)

New articles published

Günther, F., Smolka, E., & Marelli, M. (2019). ‘Understanding’ differs between English and German: Capturing systematic language differences of complex words.

Cortex, 116, 158-175. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.007 

Leminen, A., Smolka, E., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Pliatsikas, C. (2019).

Morphological processing in the brain: the good (inflection), the bad (derivation), and the ugly (compounding).

Cortex, 116, 4-44. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.016

Smolka, E., Libben, G., &…

New project funding granted

A new project funding has now been granted: Isaac Newton Trust of the University of Cambridge and Grant DFG-Excellency Initiative of the University of Konstanz (€14,000 for a funding period of 10 months): Does UNDER-STANDING differ in German and English speakers? A cross-language comparison of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying lexical processing. Pls: Eva Smolka (Konstanz) and Mirjana Bozic (University of Cambridge)

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