News

New PhD student in the lab!

August 16, 2024
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We are pleased to announce that this Fall a new student will start his Ph.D. studies in the Language Comprehension Lab. 

Benedek Bartha finished his MA studies in linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in the relationships between language, cognition and communication, particularly in how speakers make informative and useful choices for the given context and partner(s) and how those choices interact with cross-linguistic patterns.

Language Comprehension Lab at ESPP conference

June 26, 2024
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The Language Comprehension Lab will be at the 31st conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP 2024), which will take place in Grenoble, France from July 2 to 5. PI Eva Wittenberg, will present her following work at the conference.

New paper in Glossa Psycholinguistics!

May 28, 2024
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Elena Marx and Eva Wittenberg have published a new paper on how eventuality type predicts temporal order inferences in discourse comprehension. You can read the study here.

Welcoming New Research Assistants

March 4, 2024
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We are pleased to welcome two new research assistants to our lab!  Hannah Grobauer and Tiziana Srdoc are starting to work in the Language Comprehension Lab this March.

Eva Wittenberg's Talk at the University of California Audio Podcasts

January 6, 2024
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Eva Wittenberg's talk on human language was published by the University of California Audio Podcasts as part of the "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" series.