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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)

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).

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

Smolka, E., Libben, G., &…

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)

The article Can you reach for the planets or grasp at the stars? –Violated noun,verb, or preposition constituents in idiom processing in S. Schulte im Walde, & E. Smolka (Eds.), Who nicks the nickname? An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective on the role of constituents in multi-word expressions is now in press. 

The paper When Morphological Structure Overrides Meaning: Evidence from German Prefix and Particle Verbs is now published online in Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.

The paper 'Understanding’ differs between English and German: Capturing systematic language differences of complex words is now in press in Cortex. 

The paper Morphological processing in the brain: the good (inflection), the bad (derivation), and the ugly (compounding) is now in press in Cortex.

The journal article Psycholinguistic measures for German verb pairs: Semantic transparency, semantic relatedness, verb family size, and age of reading acquisition in the journal Behavior Research Methods is now published. 

Sabine Schulte im Walde and Eva Smolka invite for contributions to a Special Issue "Who nicks the nickname?"