I study sentence comprehension in first and second language speakers, with the goal of exploring the mental processes involved, and how they differ across languages and types of language learners. Together with my colleagues in the Romance Lab at Goethe University Frankfurt, we focus on languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. We conduct behavioral, eye-tracking, and neurophysiological experiments to examine how adult German speakers read sentences in Romance languages and how bilingual children acquire German alongside a Romance language.
- Psycholinguistics
- Romance Languages
- Second Language Processing
- Multilingualism
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Ph.D. Linguistics, 2014
University of Maryland
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B.A. Literature and Linguistics, 2009
University of Buenos Aires
News
- I got promoted to Associate Professor in October 2024. Related interview (in German) [here]
- The Romance Lab keeps growing! In 2024 we welcomed two new postdoctoral researchers to work within a new collaborative research center: Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB) [meet our team]
- We continue looking at how possessive pronouns are processed across languages! The German Research Council extended our AGREE project for 3 more years. The research is being conducted in collaboration with Shravan Vasishth and João Veríssimo [read more]
Publications
Lago, S., Oltrogge, E., & Stone, K. (2025). Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language? Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1), 1–32.
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Data
Lago, S., Schulz, P., Rinke, E., Oltrogge, E., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2025). Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: Does linear distance matter? Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 3, 214–223.
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Kandel, M., Pañeda, C., Bahmanian, N., Bruera, M. M., Phillips, C., & Lago, S. (2025). Number and grammatical gender attraction in Spanish pronouns: Evidence for a syntactic route to their features. Journal of Cognition, 8(1), 1–20.
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Teaching
Psycholinguistics of French and Spanish
Bachelor/Lehramt seminar, Goethe University Frankfurt
Descriptive statistics for linguists
Master's seminar, Goethe University Frankfurt
Eye-tracking in language processing
Master's seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt
Empirical research on language variation
Master's seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt
Multilingual research
Master's seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt /
Bachelor seminar at University of Potsdam
Cognitive foundations of learning
Bachelor/Lehramt seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt
Spanish and bilingualism
Bachelor/Lehramt seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt
Spanish, bilingualism and education
Bachelor/Lehramt seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt
Memory and language processing
Bachelor/Lehramt seminar at University of Maryland
Experimental methods in language acquisition and processing
Master's seminar at Goethe University Frankfurt
Contact
- sollago@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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Office
Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen
IG Farben, room 5.215
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Romance Lab
IG Farben, room 5.206
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt am Main