Language resources
Below is a selection of language resources whose development was led by members of the Center. These resources are intended to support not only academic work but also the needs of the broader community including educators, students, clinicians and all those interested in language, cognition and multilingualism. Through open access to these materials, we seek to make linguistic research more usable, visible and beneficial beyond the university setting.
JERA: A tool for assessing sentence comprehension in Slovene
JERA is the first sentence comprehension test developed for Slovene. It is based on a psycholinguistic sentence–picture verification task and enables the assessment of comprehension across different sentence types and levels of complexity. The test measures both response accuracy and response times, providing insight not only into comprehension performance but also into the temporal dynamics of sentence processing. It provides an individualized assessment of sentence comprehension ability based on comparison with normative data standardized on more than 500 neurotypical adult speakers of Slovene.
JERA is intended for researchers, speech-language professionals, educators and other specialists who require a reliable and structured instrument for evaluating language abilities at the cognitive level. Implemented as a stand-alone Windows application, the test is available for free download at jera.ung.si upon agreeing with the conditions of use.
JERA monograph
The monograph "JERA-JEzikovno RAzumevanje" [JERA-Language Comprehension] presents theoretical foundations, conceptual design, development and standardization of the JERA test. The monograph was published simultaneously in both print and electronic formats. The electronic version is available in open access under the terms of the Creative Commons 4.0 license.
SlovSTvo - testing
SLOVSTVO-testing is an online tool for evaluating language processing in Slovene, developed by CCML members under financial support of the Ministry of culture RS. Unlike traditional proficiency tests, it uses specially designed C-test tasks in which parts of words are systematically omitted and participants reconstruct them from context. This format engages grammar, vocabulary, discourse understanding, predictive processing and working memory simultaneously, making it highly sensitive to how effectively a speaker processes language. SLOVSTVO-testing is a web-based tool valuable for researchers, clinicians, and practitioners working with diverse language users where standard tests often fall short.
MAIN - Slovenian version
MAIN – Slovenian version is the Slovene adaptation of the internationally established Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). MAIN is a theory-driven tool for assessing narrative comprehension and production in children acquiring one or more languages. The tool uses carefully designed picture-based stories and parallel tasks that control for linguistic and cognitive complexity. The Slovenian version provides researchers, clinicians, and educators with a standardized resource for assessing narrative abilities in monolingual and multilingual contexts. Note: you need to fill out and submit the form at this link in order to be able to download the test.
