I investigate how first and second language speakers process sentences in different languages. Together with my colleagues at the Romance Lab, we focus on the acquisition and processing of Romance languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. For example, we study how bilingual children learn German together with a Romance language, or how adult German speakers process Romance languages (and viceversa). To address these questions, we conduct comprehension and production experiments using behavioral, eye-tracking and neurophysiological methods.
- 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
- The Romance Lab keeps growing! In 2023 we will host three new postdoctoral researchers: Andrea Listanti, Ana Rita Sá Leite and Teresa Quesada Calvo.
- AGREE grant: in 2023 we will continue looking at how possessive pronouns are processed across languages. The German Research Council has extended our AGREE project for 3 years. The research will be conducted in collaboration with Shravan Vasishth and João Veríssimo. [read more]
- EVOLVE grant: in 2022 my colleague Esther Rinke and me will start a new project looking at whether processes of diachronic change can predict variability in the behavior of heritage speakers of Spanish and Portuguese [read more]
Publications
Publication Data
Patil, U., & Lago, S. (2022). Computational cognitive modeling of predictive sentence processing in a second language. Proceedings of the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning.
Preprint Data
Lago, S., Acuña Fariña, C., & Meseguer Felip, E. (2021). The reading signatures of agreement attraction. Open Mind, 5, 132–153.
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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