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.
"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.
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., & Dressler, W. U. (2019).
When Morphological Structure Overrides Meaning: Evidence from German Prefix and Particle Verbs.Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 34(5), 599-614. doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1552006