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Main Session Schedule (Abstracts linked from titles; click on day-tabs to switch days):
All times EDT
Zoom link for ALL Main sessions (virtual and hybrid)
All in-person Main sessions are held in the Tedori Auditorium in the Levin Building.
Session | Time | # | Title | Authors |
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Panel Chair: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld. Tech host: June Choe | 09:00-9:25 | 1 | Can neural networks identify speaker commitment? | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe |
09:25-9:50 | 2 | Learning Grounded Word Representations | Ellie Pavlick | |
09:50-10:15 | 3 | Montague Grammar Induction | Aaron White | |
10:15-:10:45 | 4 | Panel Discussion - Computational Perspectives on Meaning | de Marneffe, Pavlick, White | |
10:45-11:15 | Break | |||
Main-1.1 Chair: Vicky Lai. Tech host: June Choe | 11:15-11:45 | 109 | The role of relevance, competence and priors for scalar implicatures | Polina Tsvilodub, Bob van Tiel and Michael Franke |
11:45-12:15 | 140 | Accounting for free choice: Revisiting the challenge for the implicature approach | Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill and Jacopo Romoli | |
12:15-12:45 | 31 | The investigation of quantity implicatures during typical development: a systematic review | Anna Teresa Porrini and Luca Surian | |
12:45-:1:30 | Lunch Break | |||
Parallel-1.A | 13:30-14:30 | Short Talk Session | ||
14:30-14:45 | Break | |||
Parallel-1.B | 14:45-15:45 | Short Talk Session | ||
15:45-16:00 | Break | |||
Main-1.2 Chair: Judith Tonhauser. Tech host: June Choe | 16:00-16:30 | 77 | Explanations over Consequences: Explaining Implicit Causality and Consequentiality Biases | Torgrim Solstad and Oliver Bott |
16:30-17:00 | 112 | Learnability and constraints on the semantics of clause-embedding predicates | Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson and Wataru Uegaki | |
17:00-17:30 | 111 | Beyond Surprising: English Event Structure in the Maze | Lisa Levinson | |
Break | ||||
Evening | Informal Social Gathering(s) |
Session | Time | # | Title | Authors |
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Main-2.1 Chair: Kathryn Davidson. Tech host: Yiran Chen & June Choe | 09:00-10:00 | 5 | Geometry and function in spatial terms: Core and more | Barbara Landau |
10:00-10:30 | 54 | Does causality matter? Impressions of agency influence judgments of both causal and non-casual sentences | Sehrang Joo, Sami Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank Keil and Joshua Knobe | |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
Main-2.2 Chair: Gillian Ramchand. Tech host: Yiran Chen & June Choe | 11:00-11:30 | 28 | A theoretically motivated quantitative model for the interaction between vagueness and implicatures | Alexandre Cremers |
11:30-12:00 | 104 | On a concessive reading of the rise-fall-rise contour: contextual and semantic factors | Alexander Göbel and Michael Wagner | |
12:00:12:30 | 120 | Investigating a shared mechanism in the priming of manner and quantity implicature. | Joe Cowan and Napoleon Katsos | |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |||
Parallel-2 | 13:30-14:30 | Short Talk Session | ||
14:30-15:00 | Break | |||
Main-2.3 (part presented virtual, streamed on site) Chair: Aynat Rubinstein. Tech host: Lefteris Paparounas & Yiran Chen | 15:00-15:30 | 107 | The development of irony comprehension and epistemic vigilance (virtual) | Franziska Köder, Olivier Mascaro and Ingrid Lossius Falkum |
15:30-16:00 | 145 | Proportions vs. cardinalities: Comparative ambiguities and the COVID pandemic (in person) | Elsi Kaiser | |
16:00-16:30 | 92 | Referential domains, priming and the effect of invisible objects (in person) | Si On Yoon, Breanna Pratley and Daphna Heller | |
16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break | |||
Main-2.4 Chair: Einat Shetreet. Tech host: Lefteris Paparounas | 17:00-17:30 | 24 | Source-Goal asymmetry in motion events: Sources are robustly encoded in memory but overlooked at test | Yiran Chen, Anna Papafragou and John Trueswell |
17:30-18:00 | 75 | Modelling the Role of Polysemy in Verb Categorization | Elizabeth Soper and Jean-Pierre Koenig | |
Break | ||||
18:30 | Dinner (opt-in; pay your own) |
Session | Time | # | Title | Authors |
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Main-3.1 Chair: Jeff Lidz. Tech host: Yiran Chen & Lefteris Paparounas | 09:00-10:00 | 6 | Context, Convention and Coordination: Insights from Gradable Adjectives | Chris Kennedy |
10:00-10:30 | 124 | 2-year-olds derive mutual exclusivity inferences from contrastive focus | Gabor Brody, Roman Feiman and Athulya Aravind | |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
Main-3.2 Chair: Ira Noveck. Tech host: Yiran Chen & Lefteris Paparounas | 11:00-11:30 | 128 | Lexical Aspect Maps Onto Event Apprehension | Ugurcan Vurgun, Yue Ji and Anna Papafragou |
11:30-12:00 | 155 | Perfective accomplishments don't always denote event culmination, even in Russian: Evidence from psycholinguistics | Natasha Kasher and Aviya Hacohen | |
12:00-12:30 | 44 | Aspect Processing Across Languages: Visual World Eye Tracking Evidence for Semantic Distinctions | Serge Minor, Gillian Ramchand, Natalia Mitrofanova, Gustavo Guajardo and Myrte Vos | |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |||
Parallel-3 | 13:30-14:30 | Short Talk Session | ||
14:30-15:00 | Break | |||
Main-3.3 Chair: Mandy SImons. Tech host: Yiran Chen & Lefteris Paparounas | 15:00-15:30 | 85 | Negative islands do not block active gap filling | Zirui Huang and E. Matthew Husband |
15:30-16:00 | 83 | Less than a Sentence is not Enough - An Eyetracking Study on the Incremental Interpretation of Negative Expressions | Fabian Schlotterbeck and Oliver Bott | |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
Main-3.4 Chair: Roman Feiman. Tech host: Yiran Chen & Lefteris Paparounas | 16:30-17:30 | 7 | Beyond the sentence: Discourse structural effects on reference resolution | Petra Schumacher |
Evening | Informal Social Gathering(s) |