Elizaveta Savina

Elizaveta Savina (M.A. Cultural and Cognitive Linguistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) is a PhD candidate in psycholinguistics at the Institute of German as a Foreign Philology, University of Heidelberg. Her research engages with second language acquisition and predictive processing, as well as the cognitive mechanisms underlying these domains using eye-tracking and MEG methods. Her dissertation project investigates to what extent predictive coding as a language acquisition-propagating process promotes the development of implicit knowledge about the syntactic structure of the German language in learners via prediction errors, utilizing structural priming-based experimental manipulations.