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Mar 19, 2020 - CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference 2020: Check out Lili Ji's poster presentation on relative clause acquisition in Mandarin children
The poster and a virtual poster presentation is available on OSF
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Jan 17, 2020 - Open Lab Day 2020
The next Open Lab Day is scheduled for January 23th, 16:00 - 18:00.
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Jan 06, 2020 - Summer School in June 2020 organized by The European Network for Psycholinguistic Research on Multilingualism and Multilingual Development
The Multilingualism network won first place for their grant proposal to organize a summer school in June 2020 in Warsaw
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Oct 27, 2019 - On 23 Oct Adriana Cruz Rubio defended her dissertation on "Processing Patterns of Focusing. An experimental study on pragmatic scales triggered by the Spanish focus operator 'incluso'".
Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda (IÜD) and Prof. Dr. José Portolés (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) acted as examiners and Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández was chairman. The doctoral candidate's performance was rated summa cum laude.
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Oct 21, 2019 - On 4 Oct Inés Recio Fernández defended her dissertation on "The impact of procedural meaning on second language processing: a study on connectives".
Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda (IÜD) and Prof. Dr. Ted Sanders (Utrecht University, Netherlands) acted as examiners and Prof. Dr. Vahram Atayan was chairman. The doctoral candidate's performance was rated summa cum laude.
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Featured project of the week
In this research, it was investigated how monolingual and bilingual learners of German between the age of 5 and 10 resolve anaphoric pronouns. A visual world paradigm was employed to measure what parts of a visual stimulus participants attend to while presented with short spoken texts, in which a sentence that starts with a gender encoding anaphoric pronoun follows a sentence in which two referents are mentioned.Latest publication
- Easy-to-read German put to test
Pappert, S. & Bock, B. M. (early view). Easy-to-read German put to test: Do adults with intellectual disability or functional illiteracy benefit from compound segmentation? Reading and Writing.