APPLICATIONS TO SSoL2026 ARE OPEN TILL 15th 30th MARCH 2026.
The Summer School of Linguistics will take place from 1 to 8 August 2026 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
The applications are open from 12th February till 15th 30th March 2026. See also page To apply.
List of speakers
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam): TBA
Angela de Bruin (University of York): (1) An introduction to psycholinguistic research on multilingual language production and comprehension; (2) Multilingual language control and switching: language activation, competition, and the role of context; (3) Individual differences in language experiences: why they matter and what to consider when measuring them; (4) Ageing and language in monolinguals and multilinguals
Ondřej Fišer (University of Trento, starting October 2026): The secret language of birds – communication we are only beginning to understand
Diane Mézière (University of Turku): (1) Using Eye-Tracking to Study Reading Comprehension Processes; (2) Defining and Measuring Reading Comprehension; (3) Eye Movements as Indicators of Reading Comprehension Skills; (4) Mind-Wandering and Immersion During Reading/Listening to Literary Texts
Marloes van Moort (Utrecht University): (1) Introduction to Discourse Comprehension; (2) Validation in Reading Comprehension; (3) What you read vs. what you know: Text-based vs Knowledge-based Validation
Limor Raviv (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): (1) Studying language evolution in the lab I; (2) Studying language evolution in the lab II; (3) Introduction to preregistration
Tibor Tauzin (University of Vienna): (1) Recognizing communicative information transfer in infants; (2) Communicative mentalization in infants: inferences based on communicative information transfer; (3) The difference between human infants and non-human species in understanding communicative cues
James Trujillo (University of Amsterdam): (1) Expressing and Perceiving Communicative Intentions in the Visual Modality; (2) Multimodal Communication in Autism; (3) Towards More Equitable Advances in Multimodal Language Methods