Novice in dogodki / News & events

CCML took part in the University of Nova Gorica Day, held this year at Lavričev trg in Ajdovščina. The event brought science and technology demonstrations into the town centre — and we brought language, the brain and a little bit of Bouba/Kiki challenge, among other things, with us. :)

At our stand, visitors could try out the online Stroop task, learn why some sounds seem to “fit” certain shapes better than others and why it's not quite clear what we mean when we say that the shirt is red... Visitors were able to see how simple perceptual effects open up larger questions about language, how it is used, processed and interpreted in real time. We also presented EEG/ERP methods used in our lab to study language processing in real time, with an EEG cap on display, safely off-duty but very photogenic!

Many thanks to everyone who stopped by, took our tests, guessed who was Bouba and who was Kiki, asked questions and helped us show that language research can be serious science and good fun at the same time!

Penka Stateva has delivered an invited series of lectures at the joint interdisciplinary seminar event titled "Bilingualism: From theoretical models to the art of translation". The event which took place between 13.-15.5.2026 was organized by the Graduate School "Academia Iuventutis" at the University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria).

Artem Novozhilov presented his talk "Eye of newt and toe of frog: Russian word order in between factors" at the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL35) conference that took place at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Penka Stateva took part in the Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2026 (29.-30.4.2026) where she presented the results of a research study entitled "Heritage grammar and processing in a border-shift context: Evidence from two Slovenian communities in Italy" as well as a poster outlining the activities of the Slovenian branch of the Bilingualism Matters.

Our doctoral student Danil Khristov has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation today! The title of his work is "The processing of feature assignment in the Bulgarian noun phrase", supervised by Penka Stateva. The doctoral committee included asst. prof. Petra Mišmaš (UNG), asst. prof. Sandra Villata (University Enna Kore, Italy) and assoc. prof. Tsvetelina Harakchiyska (University of Ruse, Bulgaria). Congratulations to Danil!

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Artur Stepanov attended the meeting between the University of Nova Gorica and the Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper) on 21 April 2026, where concrete areas of future cooperation between the two institutions were discussed. The occasion also provided an opportunity for productive professional discussions with colleagues on linguistics, cognition and possibilities for future collaboration with CKMJ. More information is available at the link.

Happy to report not one but two two recent articles of a CKMJ-led project group reporting results of two sister studies on heritage sentence comprehension and production, that appeared in February in April in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, respectively. Both studies address morphosyntactic restructuring processes in Slovene heritage speakers in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia communities. These are the first comprehensive psycholinguistic studies of these speaker communities and arguably among the first psycholinguistic studies in the border-shift heritage context!