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.
Schedule (as of August 1)
Saturday, August 1
ARRIVAL, EVENING PUB
Sunday, August 2
09:45–10:00 Opening
10:00–11:10 de Bruin: An introduction to psycholinguistic research on multilingual language production and comprehension
11:20–12:30 Boll-Avetisyan: From sounds to words: an introduction to foundational psycholinguistic research on infant language development
14:30–15:40 Meziére: Using Eye-Tracking to Study Reading Comprehension Processes
16:00–17:10 Meziére: Defining and Measuring Reading Comprehension
17:30–18:40 POSTER SESSION I
Monday, August 3
10:00–11:10 de Bruin: Multilingual language control and switching: language activation, competition, and the role of context
11:20–12:30 de Bruin: Individual differences in language experiences: why they matter and what to consider when measuring them
14:30–15:40 Boll-Avetisyan: Infant language development in non-Western contexts: similarities, differences, and implications for language acquisition theories
16:00–17:10 Meziére: Eye Movements as Indicators of Reading Comprehension Skills
17:30–18:40 POSTER SESSION II
Tuesday, August 4
10:00–11:10 de Bruin: Ageing and language in monolinguals and multilinguals
11:20–12:30 Boll-Avetisyan: The role of music in infants’ language development: shared mechanisms, shared pathways?
14:30–15:40 Raviv: Studying language evolution in the lab I
16:00–17:10 Meziére: Mind-Wandering and Immersion During Reading/Listening to Literary Texts
17:30–18:40 PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, August 5
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 FREE TIME
14:30–15:40 Tauzin: Recognizing communicative information transfer in infants
16:00–17:10 van Moort: Introduction to Discourse Comprehension
17:30–18:40 Raviv: Studying language evolution in the lab II
Thursday, August 6
10:00–11:10 Tauzin: Communicative mentalization in infants: inferences based on communicative information transfer
11:20–12:30 van Moort: Validation in Reading Comprehension
14:30–15:40 Trujillo: Expressing and Perceiving Communicative Intentions in the Visual Modality
16:00–17:10 Raviv: Introduction to preregistration
17:30–18:40 BRAINSTORMING SESSION
Friday, August 7
10:00–11:10 Tauzin: The difference between human infants and non-human species in understanding communicative cues
11:20–12:30 van Moort: What you read vs. what you know: Text-based vs Knowledge-based Validation
14:30–15:40 Fišer: The secret language of birds – communication we are only beginning to understand
16:00–17:10 Trujillo: Multimodal Communication in Autism
17:30–18:40 Trujillo: Towards More Equitable Advances in Multimodal Language Methods
Saturday, August 8
DEPARTURE
List of speakers
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam): (1) From sounds to words: an introduction to foundational psycholinguistic research on infant language development: (2) Infant language development in non-Western contexts: similarities, differences, and implications for language acquisition theories; (3) The role of music in infants’ language development: shared mechanisms, shared pathways?
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
Poster session
Sunday (5:30 PM, Student club Kampa)
Marek Bajger: The sentence constituent “attribute” in Czech syntax teaching
Justīne Bondare: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Latvian-English Bilingual Children: Evidence from Online and Offline Performance
Giulia Colombo: Conceptualising Weather and Natural Phenomena through Russian and Italian idioms: towards a Contrastive Thesaurus
Filip Danihelík: Enhancing multilingualism through colorful, visual allusions
Maroš Filip: Cocktail party: the unexpected effects of language familiarity on neural speech tracking
Michaela Hájková: Toward an Applicable Tool: Designing Reliability, Validity, and Norming Studies for the Short-Form Version of Czech MB-CDI: W&G
Bára Hloucalová: Instruction as a Barrier: Assigning Tasks to Pupils with Developmental Dysphasia
Lihui Hu: Disrupting prefrontal control reduces the memory boost of reading aloud
Jan Chromý & Lucie Guštarová: The Long Goodbye: Sentence-Final Integration in Language Processing
Milada Matoušková & Tomáš Ondřich: Issues of “re-telling a criminal story” across borders
Barbora Musilová: Arabic Loanwords in the Lyrics of Francophone Rap
Eva Pospíšilová: Age-Related Differences in Selective Attention during Sentence Processing in Czech
Maryia Tarasevich: Language profiles, learning experiences, and quality of life of multilingual autistic university students in Poland
Deniz Toprak: ErETKOP: An Interaction-Based Book Reading Program for Mothers and Pre-Linguistic Infants
Ronja van Zijverden: The Language of Likes: A Corpus Study on Linguistic Predictors of Message Appreciation
Monday (5:30 PM, Student club Kampa)
Kamila Bejšovcová: Systematically chaotic: How native language ambiguity shapes language evolution in Danish transmission chains
Nicol Bortko: Language and Protest: A Linguistic Analysis of Women’s Strike Protest Posters
Nela Bradíková: Neural discrimination of vowel constrasts in 4-month-old monolingual and bilingual infants: An EEG study
Lucie Doležal Nováková: Intentional bilingualism in Czech Families
Ondřej Drobil: Sentence and Clause Boundary Effects Challenge Strict Incrementality in Sentence Comprehension
Friederike Grube: Grapheme Effects in Reading Russian as a Heritage Language: Previous Findings and New Perspectives
Melanie Hackel: An areal study of General Number in East Africa
Kateřina Krásová: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of 2026 Czech New Year’s Speeches: Integrating CADS, DHA, and Cognitive Semiotics
Marina Llobet i Maioles: Infinitival main verbs in Catalan interrogatives
Milada Matoušková: Concretisation of the term of “democratic rule of law”
Milada Matoušková & Tomáš Ondřich: Does the factual portion of operative part of judgements in criminal court proceedings fulfill the Grieces maxims of co-operation?
Linus Möller: German Vowel Production by Norwegian Learners of German: An Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis
Nikola Paillereau: Social Contingency as a Driver of Babbling Maturation and Language-Specific Vocalization in Bilingual Infants: A Research Framework
Auste Raiceviciute: The processing of passive of native and non-native speakers of Lithuanian
Filipa Rychterova: Mapping Perceived Dialect Regions in Czechia Using a Digital Draw‑a‑Map Task
Iurii Savelev-Galiaminskii: Locative Derivatives in Czech: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Derivation-Inflection Interplay