Sol Lago

Postdoctoral researcher

Department Linguistik
Universität Potsdam

CV
marlago [at] uni-potsdam.de

Campus Golm
House 14, office 2.14
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25
14476 Potsdam
Germany

About

I study sentence comprehension in native and non-native speakers across different languages. My goal is to figure out how humans represent and use grammatical knowledge, and how their knowledge changes when they are exposed to a new language. I use eye-tracking, neurophysiological and cross-linguistic evidence with the goal of building cognitive models of the representations and processes that underlie real-time language processing in multilingual speakers.

Background

2017 Postdoctoral researcher (Eigene Stelle), University of Potsdam
2014 Postdoctoral researcher, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism
2014 Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Maryland
2009 B.A. Linguistics, University of Buenos Aires

News

Grant award: In 2017 I received a 3-year Eigene Stelle (independent researcher) grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in support of my research on how Spanish and English native speakers process gender and number agreement in German. I am using this research as a test case to address two important questions: are some languages more difficult to understand and potentially learn than others? And can this difficulty lie in how a speaker's native language shapes their processing mechanisms? I am currently conducting this work at the Linguistics department at the University of Potsdam
New Paper: My first paper on multilingual speakers was accepted to Second Language Research! In this paper, Anna Stutter Garcia, Claudia Felser and me look at how Spanish and English speakers understand German possessive pronouns [preprint]