Overall schedule:
June 12 (Online): 9-5:30
June 13 (in Person): 9-5:30; ~6:30 Social event
June 14 (in Person): 9-5:30
Invited Speakers (In Person, June 13-14)
- Kate Davidson (Harvard)
- Elsi Kaiser (USC)
- Josh Knobe (Yale)
Invited Online Symposium on Language and Thought:
- Paul Pietroski (Rutgers)
- Sandra Waxman (Northwestern)
- Alexis Wellwood (USC)
Talks (In Person, June 13-14)
- Thomas Sostarics, Eszter Ronai, Jennifer Cole:
Relating Scalar Inference and Alternative Activation: A view from the Rise-Fall-Rise Tune in American English - Ugurcan Vurgun, Yue Ji, Anna Papafragou:
Aspectual Coercion: A New Method to Probe Aspectual Commitments - Paul Marty, jacopo romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Richard Breheny:
On the salience of linguistic alternatives in the inference task for scalar implicatures - Monica L. Do, James R. Kesan:
Language Production for Source-Goal Motion Events: Factors Affecting Goal Mention - Kristen Syrett, Misha Becker:
Syntactic structure supports the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives - Antoine Cochard, Angeliek van Hout, Hamida Demirdache:
“Liz can buy a croissant or a donut… Both together, right?” Distinguishing target Free Choice from non-target Modal AND in Child French - Anouk Dieuleveut, Ira Noveck:
Devoir, or pouvoir, that is the question - Hayley Ross, Najoung Kim, Kathryn Davidson:
Fake reefs are sometimes reefs and sometimes not, but are always compositional - Breanna Pratley, Jed Sam Guevara, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Kyle Johnson, Brian Dillon:
Both Principle B and Competition Are Necessary to Explain Disjoint Reference Effects - Julian Grove, Aaron Steven White:
Modeling the prompt in inference judgment tasks - Ankana Saha, Yağmur Sağ, Jian Cui, Kathryn Davidson:
Mandarin demonstratives as strong definites: An experimental investigation - Yifan Wu, Helena Aparicio:
Disagreements do not automatically raise the standard of precision - Alexandros Kalomoiros, jacopo romoli, Matthew Mandelkern, Florian Schwarz:
Presuppositions project asymmetrically, unless they don’t - Morwenna Hoeks, Maziar Toosarvandani, Amanda Rysling:
Focus slowdowns arise due to the computation of alternative sets, not unpredictability
Talks (Online, June 12)
- Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer, Despina Oikonomou, Felix Gölcher, Artemis Alexiadou:
The `no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined - Michelle Denise Olvera Hernández, Asela Reig Alamillo:
Context and connective effects on the processing of concessive discourse relations: a VWP experiment - Mathias Barthel, Rosario Tomasello, Mingya Liu:
Prediction and integration of discourse-level meaning are functionally related: EEG and reading time evidence - Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Nicole Gotzner:
The effect of standards on scalar implicature processing of gradable adjectives: A web-based eye-tracking study - Natalia Talmina, Barbara Landau, Kyle Rawlins:
Pragmatics of spatial language comprehension - Noa Attali, Lisa Pearl, Gregory Scontras:
Navigating ambiguity: The usefulness of context and prosody for naturalistic scope interpretations
Posters (In Person, June 13-14)
- Natalia Jardon, Elena Marx, Eva Wittenberg:
Perfect ever after: An empirical investigation of tense-based event construals in English and Spanish - Sven Smeman, Maaike Smit, James A Hampton, Yoad Winter:
Counting uncountables and measuring countables – unpreferred, not ungrammatical - Daiki Asami, Chao Han, Jacob Burger, Deanna Dunlop, Yue Lu, Effah Yahya M Morad, Chenyue Zhao, Arild Hestvik:
‘Negation-blind’ N400 disappears when priming is controlled - Hyewon Jang:
A type of sarcasm that current theories fail to explain — evidence from sarchasm - Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bilbiie, Lyn Tieu:
Coloring disjunction in child Romanian - Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bilbiie, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu:
A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction - Yuli Feng:
On the Interpretational Flexibility of Mandarin Chinese Dabufen - Premvanti Patel, Kristen Syrett, Athulya Aravind:
Using bounds set by modals to investigate the status of partial objects and count nouns - Angela Cao, Aaron White, Dan Lassiter:
Graded Causatives - Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Maria Teresa Guasti:
Talking about Distributivity: How Cognitive Factors Influence Children’s Language - Cassandra Kim, Ariel Starr:
From words to memory: Evidence of language guiding motion event reconstruction - Andrea Beltrama, Joyce He, Florian Schwarz:
It’s not just Imprecision: Stereotypes guide Vagueness Resolution in Implicit Comparisons - Andrea Beltrama, Joyce He, Florian Schwarz:
Integrating social information into pragmatic reasoning in real time - Ebru Evcen, David Barner:
Already Perfect: Conditional Statements - Christian Muxica, Jesse Harris:
Context rather than semantic priming drives the early availability of focus alternatives - Leah Doroski, Raquel Montero, Maribel Romero:
Spanish Neg-raising: Always in the mood for Neg-raising, sometimes in the mood for NPIs - Giuseppe Ricciardi, Kevin Reuters:
Exploring the Agent-Relativity of Truth - Shenshen Wang, Chao Sun, Richard Breheny:
Getting to the Truth is More Cognitively Demanding – Another Look at the Role of Working Memory in Negation Processing - Lyn Tieu, Yawovi Godo, Lydia Mei, Andreea Nicolae:
Experimentally investigating the strengthening properties of disjunction in French: When exclusivity meets free choice and ad hoc implicatures - Shaokang Jin, Richard Breheny:
Priming relevant and non-relevant features in metaphorical and literal contexts - Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, Maria Teresa Guasti:
Do all Telic-Perfective Sentences (Always) Culminate? An Exploratory Study on Event Culmination in Italian Monolingual Adults. - Eleanor Muir, Simge Topaloglu, Jesse Snedeker:
The Role of Working Memory in Scalar Implicature Computation in ADHD and Non-ADHD Individuals - Mieke Slim, David Barner, Roman Feiman:
Learning the logic in language: Acquiring the meanings of all, every and each - Mingya Liu, Stephanie Rotter:
Semantic and Social Meaning Match: experiments on modal concord in US English - Mieke Slim, Roman Feiman, Mora Maldonado:
Priming between universal quantifiers in negated scopally ambiguous sentences - André Eliatamby, Lyn Tieu:
The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures - Elizabeth Coppock, David Beaver, Emily Richardson:
Ordering is not ranking: A study of ordinals vs. degree modifiers in nested definites - Sarah Hye-yeon Lee, Anna Papafragou:
Conceptual Signatures of Atomicity Across Languages - Sarah Hye-yeon Lee, Anna Papafragou:
Cross-domain event primitives are reflected in motion verb learning across languages - Chao Sun, jacopo romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Richard Breheny:
Putting donkeys into context - Fabian Schlotterbeck, Polina Berezovskaya:
Less-comparatives must be less ambiguous than exactly-differentials, experimental data shows - Emil Eva Rosina, Kristina Liefke:
Experientiality markers in memory reports: A semantics-pragmatics puzzle - Letizia Raminelli, Desirée Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Maria Teresa Guasti:
Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian focus particles - Yoolim Kim, Carolyn Jane Anderson:
Parenthesized Modifiers in English and Korean: What They (May) Mean - David Strohmaier, Simon Wimmer:
Contrafactives, learnability, and production - Jonathan Palucci:
Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: cumulation vs. buildups - Irene Mognon, Amber L. Marree, Petra Hendriks:
Reduced sensitivity to underinformativeness? Using a ternary judgment task to assess scalar implicature generation in L2 and L1 - Anton Benz, Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott, Martin Kahnberg, Andrea C. Schalley:
A conceptual analysis of verbs of pushing and pulling - Ghyslain Cantin-Savoie, Grégoire Winterstein, Denis Foucambert:
The effect of context on the online processing of adversatives: an eyetracking study - Daniel Asherov, Gabor Brody, Vincent Rouillard, Athulya Aravind:
Pragmatics of human-AI communication - Karl Mulligan, Kyle Rawlins:
Identifying QUDs in Naturalistic Discourse - Katherine Howitt, Colin Phillips, Jeffrey Lidz:
4 year old children really do know the strong crossover constraint - Tiana V. Simovic, Craig Chambers:
Pronoun Interpretation Reveals the Robustness and Flexibility of Perspective Reasoning - Laila Johnston, Daniel A. Smits, Ellie Pavlick, Roman Feiman:
The Structure of Ad-Hoc Alternatives - Christiana Moser, Bahar Tarakcı, Ercenur Ünal, Myrto Grigoroglou:
Conceptual and language-specific effects on multimodal recipient event descriptions - Erying Qin, Richard Breheny, Chao Sun:
Does ‘a couple’ pattern with scalars or numbers – Insights from the inference and ‘so’ tasks - Vic Tianlan Wen, Kirby Conrod, Dan Grodner:
Online Processing of, and Adaptation to, Nonbinary Pronouns - Jennifer Arnold:
Learning discourse patterns through exposure: Mixed input helps identify informative categories - Robin Lemke:
Investigating fragment usage with a gamified utterance selection task - Lilia Rissman, Sebastian Sauppe, Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Anna Merin Mathew, Kamal Kumar Choudhary, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Balthasar Bickel:
Do speakers of nominative vs. ergative languages think about Agency in different ways? - Qiawen Liu, Gary Lupyan:
Why is “tree skin” better than “human bark”: Semantic centrality predicts asymmetries in metaphorical extensions
Short Online Talks (Poster equivalent; June 12)
- Sebastian Walter, Stefan Hinterwimmer:
An experimental investigation of perspective alignment in gesture and speech - Radim Lacina, Nicole Gotzner:
Only the (informationally) stronger survive: A probe recognition study with scale-mates and antonyms - Stephanie Solt, Roland Mühlenbernd, Mariya Burbelko:
Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: The case of (im)precision - Chengjie Jiang, Ruth Filik:
Expecting the unexpected: Examining the interplay between world knowledge and context in relatively unconstraining scenarios - Kurt Erbach, Cornelia Ebert, Magnus Poppe:
Experimental findings for a cross-modal account of dynamic binding in gesture-speech interaction - Hyewon Jang:
A type of sarcasm that current theories fail to explain — evidence from sarcasm - Nitzan Trainin, Einat Shetreet:
‘Exhausting’ Theory of Mind resources impairs speaker-specific lexical alignment - Zhuang Qiu, Casey D. Felton, Zachary Nicholas Houghton, Masoud Jasbi:
The Effect of Experimental Paradigms on Scalar Implicature Estimation - Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous:
The importance of speaker knowledge and cooperation in priming scalar implicatures - Shirly Orr:
The lying/misleading distinction from the viewpoint of truth evaluators - Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad:
Abductive inferences in causal discourse: Evidence from eyetracking during reading - Sebastian Walter:
Indirect discourse as mixed quotation: Evidence from self pointing gestures - Yasutada Sudo, Lisa Bylinina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou:
Priming acceptability judgments of NPI any - Paola Pinzón-Henao, Jennifer Barbosa, Angelina Pasquella, Paul Muentener, Laura Lakusta:
Development of Mechanistic Support Language in Spanish Speakers in Colombia - Anna Pryslopska, Titus von der Malsburg:
Towards a psycholinguistic model of bracketing paradoxes - Emily Sadlier-Brown, Carla Hudson Kam:
Evaluating context-independent meaning in two English discourse particles - Benjamin Weissman:
How does a speaker’s intent to deceive affect scalar inference and lie judgments? - Inbal Kuperwasser, Einat Shetreet:
Group membership impact on referential communication - Muffy Siegel, Florian Schwarz:
Local Accommodation Continues to be Backgrounded - Casey D. Felton, Masoud Jasbi:
Quantifying Non-Implicature Sources of Disjunction Exclusivity - Sol Lago, Petra Schulz, Esther Rinke, Elise Oltrogge, Carolin Dudschig, Barbara Kaup:
Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter? - Zarina Levy-Forsythe, Aviya Hacohen:
On a grammaticized lexical count-mass distinction in classifier languages: Experimental evidence from Tashkent Uzbek