Sol Lago

Sol Lago

Assistant Professor

Goethe University Frankfurt

I study how sentences are understood by first and second language speakers. What kind of mental computations are necessary? And do they vary across different languages or between different types of language learners? Together with my colleagues at the Romance Lab, we focus on Romance languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. For example, we study how adult German speakers comprehend Romance languages in real-time, and also how bilingual children acquire German together with a Romance language. To address these questions, we conduct comprehension and production experiments using behavioral, eye-tracking and neurophysiological methods.

Interests
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Romance Languages
  • Second Language Processing
  • Multilingualism
Education
  • Ph.D. Linguistics, 2014

    University of Maryland

  • B.A. Literature and Linguistics, 2009

    University of Buenos Aires

News

  • The Romance Lab keeps growing! In 2024 we will welcome two postdoctoral researchers to work within a new collaborative research center: "Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)" [meet our team]

  • In 2023 we continued looking at how possessive pronouns are processed across languages. The German Research Council extended our AGREE project for 3 years. The research is being conducted in collaboration with Shravan Vasishth and João Veríssimo [read more]

  • In 2022 my colleague Esther Rinke and me started 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

Pañeda, C., & Lago, S. (2024). The Missing VP Illusion in Spanish: Assessing the Role of Language Statistics and Working Memory. Open Mind, 8, 42–66.
Publication Data

Lago, S. Stone, K., Oltrogge, E., & Veríssimo, J. (2023). Possessive processing in bilingual comprehension. Language Learning, 73(3), 904–941.
Publication Data

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
  • 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