Talks at Conferences

Kreiner, H., Smolka, E., & Degani, T (2019, February). Trajectoriesin bilingual production of grammatical gender agreement: Language experience and cross-language influence. International workshop on Literacy and Writing systems: Cultural, Neuropsychological, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives, University of Haifa, Israel.

Smolka, E., & Eulitz, C. (2018, November). Can you reach for the planets or grasp at the stars? –  Modified noun, verb, or preposition constituents in idiom processing. Workshop on Psycholinguistic and Computational Perspectives on Non-Compositional Meaning in Phrases, Tübingen, Germany.

Günther, F., Smolka, E., & Marelli, M. (2017, July). ‘Understanding’ differs between English and German: Capturing Systematic Language Differences of Complex Words. International Conference on the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages (CoGS), Konstanz, Germany.

Smolka, E. (2017, February). Do children stand when they understand? – The processing of prefix and particle verbs in German by 11-15 year olds. Pre/Proto Workshop, Department of Linguistics, Vienna, Austria.

Dörre, L., & Smolka, E. (2016, December). When the pig is bought in a poke—the influence of transitivity and constituent adjacancy on the processing of passivized idiomatic sentences. Workshop Current Trends in Figurative Language Research, Tübingen, Germany.

Smolka, E., & Braun, B. (2016, February). Hör endlich auf/zu (‘Now stop/listen’)! – The Lexical Representation and Semantic Activation of German Particle Verbs. Thirty-eighth Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Konstanz, Germany.

Feldman, L. F., Smolka, E., Cho K., & Milin, P. (2014, October). Effects of Semantic Transparency on Morphological Processing: Prefixed English Verbs. Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Niagara on the Lake, Canada.

Shvietski-Glücker, A., Bar-On, A., Levie, R., Smolka, E., & Ravid, D. (2014, July). Root perception in verbs context among Hebrew-speaking adults: A psycholinguistic study. International Conference on the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages (CoGS), Konstanz, Germany.

Smolka, E. (2014, July). German verb derivation in children and adults. International Conference on the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages (CoGS), Konstanz, Germany.

Fickel, J. & Smolka, E. (2014, July). The processing of German stems in zero derivation, Umlaut, and Ablaut. International Conference on the Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Indo-Germanic and Semitic Languages (CoGS), Konstanz, Germany.

Smolka, E. (2012). When stems mean more than words: The acquisition of morphological structure in German 11-12 and 14-15 year-olds. Proceedings of the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy (p. 10).

Smolka, E. (2012, February). When stems mean more than words: The acquisition of morphological structure in German 11-12 and 14-15 year-olds. Fifteenth International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.

Smolka, E., & Eulitz, C. (2011). Asymmetric meaning assembly for semantically transparent and opaque complex verbs in German. Proceedings of the Seventh International Morphological Processing Conference (MOPROC), San Sebastian, Spain (p. 36).

Smolka, E., Tema, N. & Eulitz, C. (2010, July). When family does not matter: Morphological Effects of Prefixed Verbs in German. Seventh International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Canada.

Meunier, F., Smolka, E., Hoen, M., & Eulitz, C. (2009). Exploring the early morphological decomposition effect. Proceedings of the Sixth Morphological Processing Conference (MOPROC), Turku, Finland (p. 51).

Smolka, E., Preller, K., Meunier, F., & Eulitz, C. (2009). German prefixed verbs show morphological processing beyond the ‘CORNER-CORN effect’. Proceedings of the Sixth Morphological Processing Conference (MOPROC), Turku, Finland (p. 25).

Rabanus, S. & Smolka, E. (2008, February). Die mentale Verarbeitung von Idiomen: ganzheitlich oder einzelwortspezifisch? Third Meeting of German Linguistics, Rom, Italy.

Smolka, E. (2008, February). Is a “default mechanism” necessary? Not for regular and irregular German participles. Thirteenth International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.

Smolka, E., Gondan, M., & Rösler, F. (2007). Event-Related Potentials Reveal Stem Access in Semantically Transparent and Opaque Derivations. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology ESCoP, Marseille, France (p. 57).

Smolka, E., Komlósi, S., Zwitserlood, P., & Rösler, F. (2007, June). Stem access in regular and irregular inflection as well as semantically transparent and opaque derivation: Is a single system enough? Fifth International Morphology Workshop, Marseille, France.

Smolka, E., Gondan, M., & Rösler, F. (2007). Stem access in semantically transparent and opaque derivations: Evidence from event-related potentials. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Turku, Finland (p. 40).

Smolka, E., Rabanus, S., & Rösler, F. (2006, October). The processing of verbs in German idiomatic and literal phrases. Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Canada.

Smolka, E., Komlósi, C., & Rösler, F. (2006). When semantics means less than morphology: The processing of German prefixed verbs. Proceeding of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Nijmegen, Netherlands (p. 59).

Smolka, E., Komlósi, S., & Rösler, F. (2006). Wenn Morphologie mehr bedeutet als Semantik: Evidenz zur Verarbeitung von deutschen Verben. In H. Hecht, S. Berti, G. Meinhardt, & M. Gamer (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie, Beiträge zur 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (p. 159). Pabst: Lengerich.

Smolka, E., Rösler, F., & Zwitserlood, P. (2005). The Basic Ingredients of Irregularity: Lexical Access and Storage of German Verb Inflection. In Hommel, B., Band, G., La Heij, W., & Wolters, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology ESCoP 2005, Leiden, Netherlands (p. 39). Leiden University: Leiden.

Smolka, E., Rösler, F., & Zwitserlood, P. (2005, June). The basic ingredients of irregularity: Lexical access and storage of German verb inflection. Fourth International Morphology Workshop, Cambridge, UK.

Smolka, E., Rösler, F., & Zwitserlood, P. (2005). German participles: Evidence for the basic ingredients of the mental lexicon. In Lange, K. W., Bäuml, K., Greenlee, M. W., Hammerl, M., & Zimmer, A. (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie, Abstracts der 47. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (p. 191). Pabst: Lengerich.

Smolka, E. (2004, February). Defining the basic ingredients of regularity: The storage and access of German participles in the mental lexicon. Eleventh International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria.

Smolka, E., Rösler, F., & Wiese, R. (2003). Morphological and semantic priming effects in the processing of German verbs: Evidence from reaction times and event related potentials. In Bajo, T., & Lupianez, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology ESCoP 2003, Granada, Spain (p. 494). Imprenta Santa Rita: Monachil, Granada.

Smolka, E., Niedeggen-Bartke, S., Wiese, R., & Rösler, F. (2003). Morphological versus semantic priming effects: The role of frequency in the processing of German verbs. In Golz, J., Faul, F., & Mausfeld, R. (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie, Abstracts der 45. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (p. 142). Pabst: Lengerich.

Smolka, E. (2003, June). Defining the basic ingredients of regularity: The storage and access of German participles in the mental lexicon. Jährliches Treffen für Phonologie und Morphologie der Universitäten Düsseldorf, Köln, Marburg, und Siegen (DüKöMarSie), Marburg, Germany.

Poster Presentations at Conferences

Kreiner, H., & Smolka, E. (2019, March). Bilingual Production of Grammatical Gender Agreement - CROSS-Language Interference and the Flanker Effect. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Paris, France.

Kreiner, H., Smolka, E., & Degani, T. (2018, September). Trajectories in bilingual production of grammatical gender agreement: Language experience and cross-language influence. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.

Kreiner, H., & Smolka, E. (2018, July). Production of grammatical gender agreement: What can we learn from the differences between native speakers and bilinguals?  Tenth International Workshop on Language Production, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Eulitz, C., & Smolka, E. (2017, November). The brain differentiates between known and unknown word compositions but not between transparent and opaque meaning composition: ERP-evidence from the processing of German nominal compounds and pseudo-compounds. Conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Dörre, L., & Smolka, E. (2016). When the Pig is Bought in a Poke—The Influence of Transitivity and Constituent Adjacency on the processing of Passivized Idiomatic Sentences. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Bilbao, Spain.

Smolka, E., & Eulitz, C. (2015, June). Electrophysiological evidence for stem access in regular and irregular German participles. Eight International Morphological Processing Conference (MOPROC), Potsdam, Germany.

Smolka, E., & Dörre, L. (2013). Can You Reach for the Planets? The Processing of Idioms in Aphasic Patients. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 170-171.

Dörre, L. & Smolka, E. (2013). Can the bucket be kicked by him? The processing of passivized idiomatic and literal sentences. Proceedings of the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, USA (p. 65).

Smolka, E. (2013). Differential processing of literal and figurative meaning in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Proceedings of the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, USA.

Smolka, E. (2012, October). Can you reach for the planets? The processing of idioms in aphasics. Eighth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Canada.

Smolka, E., & Eulitz, C. (2012, October). Electrophysiological evidence for stem access in regular and irregular German participles. Eighth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Canada.

Smolka, E., & Dörre, L. (2012, June). Can You Reach for the Planets? The Processing of Idioms in Aphasics. International ConferenceNeuroPsychoLinguistic Perspectives on Aphasia, Toulouse, France.

Schweizer, S., Smolka, E., & Braun, B. (2012). Semantic Priming of Complex German Verbs: Effects of Transparency. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy (p. 84).

Smolka, E., Pöhnl, V., & Eulitz, C. (2012). Electrophysiological evidence for stem access in regular and irregular German participles. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (CNS), Chicago, USA (p. 137).

Smolka, E., & Dörre, L. (2011, November). Kann man die Weisheit mit Gabeln fressen? Idiomverarbeitung bei Aphasie. Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Research and Treatment of Aphasia (GAB), Konstanz, Germany.

Smolka, E. (2011). Irrespective of meaning: The acquisition of morphological structure in German 11-12 year olds. Proceedings of the Seventh International Morphological Processing Conference (MOPROC), San Sebastian, Spain (p. 77).

Smolka, E., & Eulitz, C. (2011, May). Can you reach for the planets or grasp at the stars? The assembly of figurative meaning in idiomatic phrases with noun, verb, or preposition substitutions. Workshop on Processing and Appreciating Creative Figurative Language, Heidelberg, Germany.

Smolka, E., Baumann, S., & Eulitz, C. (2010). How fixed are fixed expressions? Activation of idiomatic meaning in idiomatic phrases with noun or verb substitutions. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, New York, USA (p. 154).

Smolka, E., Aviles, A., & Carreiras, M. (2008, September). When hands convey the concreteness of words: Language production in Cued Speech. Fifth International Workshop on Language Production, Annapolis, Maryland (USA).

Smolka, E., Gondan, M., & Rösler, F. (2008). When ‘umkommen’ (perish) primes ‘kommen’ (come): Electrophysiological evidence for stem access in semantically opaque derivations. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, USA (p.162).

Smolka, E., Aviles, A., & Carreiras, M. (2008). When hands convey the concreteness of words: Language production in cued speech. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Cambridge, England (p.108).

Smolka, E., Cholin, J., & Carreiras, M. (2008, January). Syllable production in Cued Speech. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Syllable, New York, USA.

Smolka, E., Rösler, F., & Wiese, R. (2005). Morphological versus semantic priming effects in the processing of German verbs: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain and Cognition, 57, 288.

Smolka, E., Zwitserlood, P., & Rösler, F. (2004, June). The basic ingredients of verb regularity: The storage and access of German participles in the mental lexicon. Fourth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Windsor, Canada.

Smolka, E., Niedeggen-Bartke, S., Wiese, R., & Rösler, F. (2002, August). Morphological versus semantic priming effects in the processing of German participles: More than two routes? International Symposium on Assessing the Dynamics of Human Brain Functions, Marburg, Germany.

Smolka, E., & Eviatar, Z. (1999). The effects of diacritics on visual word recognition in Hebrew: Differential processing in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. In Vandierendonck, A., Brysbart, M., & van der Goten, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology ESCoP 1999, Gent, Belgium (p. 320). Academia Press: Gent.