Research Funding

Over €100,000 

as Principal Investigator

2019                                                                                        

Extension of the Dilthey-Fellowship by the Volkswagen Foundation (€110,000 for the funding period of a year). PI: Eva Smolka (Konstanz)

2011-2018                                                                                                                                        

Dilthey Fellowship of the funding initiative Pro Humanities jointly supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation (€515,000 for a funding period of five years): Can you eat the wisdom with forks? - The storage and processing of complex word structures in memory. PI: Eva Smolka (Konstanz). 

 as Collaborator

2016-2020                                                            

DFG-ANR (€382,000 for the funding period of three years): The role of Morphemes during Reading Development. PIs: Sascha Schröder (MPI Berlin) and Jonathan Grainger (CNRS Marseille).

Up to €100,000 

as Principal Investigator

2019-2020

Isaac Newton Trust of the University of Cambridge and DFG-Excellency Initiative of the University of Konstanz (€37,800 for a funding period of 18 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)

2019DFG-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)

2017-2018

Grant AFF of the University of Konstanz (€10,000 for a funding period of two years): CHILD SPEECH. PI: Eva Smolka (Konstanz)

2016-2017

DFG-Excellency Initiative of the International Office, University of Konstanz (€5,000): What is a Verb? – An International Conference on the Modeling and Processing of Verbs. PIs: Eva Smolka (Konstanz) and Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv).

2014

DFG-Excellency Initiative of the International Office, University of Konstanz (€5,000): The stuff words are made of – An international conference on the cross-linguistic comparison of German and Hebrew. PIs: Eva Smolka (Konstanz) and Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv).

2013-2014

Ontario-Baden-Württemberg Faculty Mobility Program financed by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Arts (€6,000): Can you wash off the hogwash? The Lateralization of Compound Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres. PI: Eva Smolka (Konstanz).

2013

Young Scholar Fund 83970813 of the University of Konstanz (€8,000, declined): “Wurde die Weisheit mit Gabeln gefressen?“ Die syntaktische Verarbeitung von Idiomen in Sprachgesunden und Patienten mit Sprachstörungen. PI: Eva Smolka (Konstanz)

2010-2011

Young Scholar Fund 83953519 of the University of Konstanz (€46,000 for a funding period of a year): In-between complex words and phrases – Probing the mental representation of idioms by means of prosody. PIs: Eva Smolka and Bettina Braun (Konstanz).

2010

Grant LF 224/10 of the Lion Foundation ($7,000 for a funding period of a year): Words, Morphemes, and Syllables in Hebrew and German – a Developmental Cross-Linguistic Comparison of the Basic Units of the Mental Lexicon. PIs: Eva Smolka (Konstanz) and Dorit Ravid (Tel Aviv).

2009-2011

Grant AFF 26/09 from the University of Konstanz (€11,000 for a funding period of two years): Mentale Speicherung und Verarbeitung von Idiomen. PIs: Eva Smolka and Carsten Eulitz (Konstanz).


2008-2010                                                                                                                                                               

Acciones Integradas HA2008-0011 1808463B750 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (€12,000 for a funding period of two years): Syllable-frequency and morphological effects during visual word recognition in Spanish and German. PIs: Eva Smolka and Horacio A. Barber Friend (La Laguna), Florian Hutzler (Salzburg).

1997 

Research Stipend (DM 2,000), University of Flensburg, Germany.

1996 

Graduate Division Research Fellowship, University of Haifa, Israel.