ELM 2 Parallel Session Schedules

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All in-person Parallel sessions are held in the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics

Parallel-1.A: 5/18
Parallel-1.B: 5/18
Parallel-2: 5/19
Parallel-3: 5/20

Day 1: 13:30-14:30 EDT all virtual

Session	#	Title	Authors
Parallel-1.A.1 Zoom link Chair: Rosario Tomasello Tech host: Sarah Lee	12	Ignorance and Exclusivity in Semi-Cooperative Contexts	Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo and Richard Breheny
	20	You must worry! The interpretation of "mustn't" varies with context and verb complement.	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz and Roxana-Mihaela Pǎtrunjel
	68	What is the processing cost of (im)precision?	Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Ira Noveck and Ingrid Lossius Falkum
	106	A path to ignorance: The default computation of Scalar Implicatures	Alan Bale, David Barner, Maho Takahashi, Hisako Naguchi and Marguerite Rolland
	154	Sensitivity to speaker knowledge in online tests of scalar implicature	Maho Takahashi, David Barner, Aaron Cousins and Alan Bale
Parallel-1.A.2 Zoom link Chair: Olver Bott Tech host: Ariel Mathis	30	Investigating discourse referent salience patterns of negative quantifying expressions	Eva Klingvall and Fredrik Heinat
	64	Inferring semantic representations underlying the meanings of numerals	Milica Denić and Jakub Szymanik
	66	A corpus-based study of (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions	Morgan Moyer and Judith Degen
	108	Generalizating NPIs to positive uses in an Artificial Language	Jeremy Kuhn and Mora Maldonado
	113	Exhaustivity in preschoolers' clefted focus interpretation: Identification in context	Balazs Suranyi and Lilla Pinter
Parallel-1.A.3 Zoom link Chair: Elsi Kaiser Tech host: Ugurcan Vurgun	26	Conceptual Foundations of Telicity: Viewers' Spontaneous Representation of Boundedness in Event Perception	Yue Ji and Anna Papafragou
	29	Far from independent: Matrix-driven temporal shift interpretations of English and German past-under-past relative clauses	Elena Marx and Eva Wittenberg
	34	When Transformer models are more compositional than humans: The case of the depth charge illusion	Dario Paape
	96	Transparency in the Processing of Temporal Ambiguity: The Case of Embedded Tense	Giuliano Armenante, Vera Hohaus and Britta Stolterfoht
	115	Effects of referent lifetime knowledge on processing of verb morphology	Daniela Palleschi, Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos and Pia Knoeferle
Parallel-1.A.4 Zoom link Chair: Andrea Beltrama Tech host: Karen Li	14	Amusing or aggressive? A cross-cultural study in sarcasm interpretation and use	Ning Zhu and Ruth Filik
	37	The role of context and working memory in the MIE - A window on metaphor processes	Shaokang Jin and Richard Breheny
	38	Pragmatic and knowledge lenience towards foreigners	Anna Lorenzoni, Elena Pagliarini, Francesco Vespignani and Eduardo Navarrete Sanchez
	79	Can slurs be used without being mentioned? Evidence from an inference judgement task	Maria Esipova
	95	Irony Regulates Negative Emotion - in Speakers and Listeners	Valeria Pfeifer and Vicky Tzuyin Lai

Day 1: 14:45-15:45 EDT all virtual

Session	#	Title	Authors
Parallel-1.B.1 Zoom link Chair: Lisa Levinson Tech host: Ariel Mathis	35	Five degrees of (non)sense: Investigating the connection between bullshit receptivity and susceptibility to semantic illusions	Dario Paape
	55	Context matters: Changes in the affective representation of a word in younger and older adults	Li-Chuan Ku and Vicky T. Lai
	101	Accessing children's pragmatic competence through intonational production	Line Sjøtun Helganger and Ingrid Lossius Falkum
	139	Affect encoding in word embeddings	Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang and Xiajie Zhang
	147	Real-time processing of indexical and generic expressions: Insights from, and implications for, COVID-related public health messages	Elsi Kaiser and Jesse Storbeck
Parallel-1.B.2 Zoom link Chair: Andrea Beltrama Tech host: Ugurcan Vurgun	56	4-year-olds' interpretation of additive too in question comprehension	Hisao Kurokami, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz
	81	To honor or not to honor: Korean honorifics with mixed status conjoined subjects	Christopher Davis and Sunwoo Jeong
	99	Processing conditionals in context: Reading time and electrophysiological responses	Mathias Barthel, Rosario Tomasello and Mingya Liu
	121	Social identity modulates inferences about speaker commitment to projective content	Taylor Mahler
	151	Can 'hard words' become easy? Mapping evidential meanings onto different forms	Dionysia Saratsli and Anna Papafragou
Parallel-1.B.3 Zoom link Chair: Lyn Tieu Tech host: Sarah Lee	40	Getting to the truth is not easy as putting it in context - A dual task study of negation processing	Shenshen Wang, Chao Sun and Richard Breheny
	41	Multiple pressures to explain the 'not all' gap	Jeremy Kuhn and Lena Pasalskaya
	62	Addressing unexpected questions in discourse	Swantje Tönnis and Judith Tonhauser
	70	Predicting the f***ing word: Studying the benefits of negative expressive adjectives during sentence comprehension	Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos and Filippo Domaneschi
	125	The enduring effects of default focus in let alone ellipsis: Evidence from pupillometry	Jesse Harris

Day 2: 13:30-14:30 EDT all in person

Session	#	Title	Authors
Parallel-2.1 PCPE 100 Zoom link Chair: Yiran Chen Tech host: Ugurcan Vurgun	50	Social identity and charity: when less precise speakers are held to stricter standards	Andrea Beltrama and Florian Schwarz
	72	Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming	Eszter Ronai and Ming Xiang
	84	Group membership impact on pragmatic inferences	Inbal Kuperwasser, Yoav Bar-Anan and Einat Shetreet
	123	On the interpretation of German 'einige': The effect of tense and cardinality	Maya Cortez Espinoza and Lea Fricke
Parallel-2.2 PCPE 101 Zoom link Chair: Alex Goebel Tech host: Alex Kalomoiros	65	The role of grammatical cues in tracking object location in transfer-of-possession events: A visual-world eye-tracking study	Sarah Hye-Yeon Lee and Elsi Kaiser
	102	Acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference: Semantic alternatives modulate subordinate meanings	June Choe and Anna Papafragou
	127	Are they touching? Contact and pronoun choice in English prepositional phrases	Shannon Bryant
	150	Trouble finding the words: Lexical differences affect how English and Chinese speakers communicate categories	Lilia Rissman, Qiawen Liu and Gary Lupyan
	153	The color/size asymmetry in redundant modification replicates cross-linguistically (virtual)	Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen, Leyla Kursat, J. Adolfo Hermosillo, Anthony Velasquez and Rabia Ergin
Parallel-2.3 PCPE 200 Zoom link Chair: Alexandre Cremers Tech host: Lefteris Paparounas	22	Modals in natural language optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off	Nathaniel Imel and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
	69	Crosslinguistic differences on the Present Perfect Puzzle: an experimental approach	Martín Fuchs and Martijn van der Klis
	76	Machine classification of modal meanings: An empirical study and some consequences	Aynat Rubinstein, Valentina Pyatkin, Shoval Sadde, Reut Tsarfaty and Paul Portner
	78	Non-Doxastic Attitude Ascriptions and Semantic Meaning	Wojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś and Bartosz Maćkiewicz
	100	Not that "fake" - Adults interpret the present counterfactual's "fake" past tense as real	Maxime Tulling, Johanna Bunn and Ailis Cournane
Parallel-2.4 PCPE 202 Zoom link Chair: Remus Gergel Tech host: Karen Li	36	Effects of entity relatedness and definiteness on bridging inferences	Mandy Simons and Hannah Rohde
	48	Commitment vs. discourse orientation : experimental and computational perspectives	Grégoire Winterstein, Ghyslain Cantin-Savoie, Samuel Laperle, Josiane Van Dorpe and Nora Villeneuve
	61	Testing the Influence of QUDs on Conditional Perfection	Britta Grusdt, Michael Franke and Mingya Liu
	90	The information structure of word order alternations	Giuseppe Ricciardi and Edward Gibson
	146	Generating Discourse Connectives with Pre-trainedLanguage Models: Do Discourse Relations Help?	Symon Stevens-Guille, Aleksandre Maskharashvili and Michael White

Day 3: 13:30-14:30 EDT all in person

Session	#	Title	Authors
Parallel-3.1 PCPE 100 Zoom link Chair: Paul Portner Tech host: Sarah Lee	88	The rise and particularly fall of presuppositions: Evidence from duality in universals	Remus Gergel, Maike Puhl, Simon Dampfhofer and Edgar Onea
	110	Comparing Global and Local Accommodation: Rating and Response Time Data	Alexander Göbel and Florian Schwarz
	126	Effects of instruction on semantic and pragmatic judgment tasks	Ziling Zhu and Dorothy Ahn
	129	To parse or not to parse: symmetric filtering in negated conjunctions	Alexandros Kalomoiros and Florian Schwarz
Parallel-3.2 PCPE 101 Zoom link Chair: Lilia Rissman Tech host: Yiran Chen	59	Corpus evidence for the role of world knowledge in ambiguity reduction: Using high positive expectations to inform quantifier scope	Noa Attali, Lisa Pearl and Gregory Scontras
	60	Incremental theme verbs do not encode measures of change: experimental evidence from German-speaking adults	Merle Weicker, Lea Heßler-Reusch and Petra Schulz
	82	Speaker reliability: calibrating confidence with evidence	Mélinda Pozzi and Diana Mazzarella
	148	Task effects on the processing of predicate ambiguity: Distributivity in the Maze	John Duff, Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling
Parallel-3.3 PCPE 200 Zoom link Chair: Eszter Ronai Tech host: Lefteris Paparounas	9	Bayesian Modeling of Quantifier Cardinal Reference Variability: The Case of English Few, Several, and Many	Skyler Reese, Masoud Jasbi and Emily Morgan
	130	Universal quantification without language? Ten-month-old infants represent the universality of visually presented properties.	Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti, Tyler Knowlton, Jeffrey Lidz and Justin Halberda
	142	A psycho-semantic explanation of "each" and "every" quantifier use	Tyler Knowlton, John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou
	149	Reading times show effects of contextual complexity and uncertainty in comprehension of German universal quantifiers	Fabian Schlotterbeck and Petra Augurzky
Parallel-3.4 PCPE 202 Zoom link Chair: Ailis Cournane Tech host: Karen Li	23	Visual boundaries in sign motion: processing with and without lip reading cues	Julia Krebs, Evie Malaia, Ronnie Wilbur and Dietmar Roehm
	105	Exploring the pragmatic import of non-truth-conditional discourse connectives	Cecile Larralde, Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Ira Noveck
	133	Logical connectives: An extendable experimental paradigm	Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez and Kathryn Davidson
	138	Nonboolean Conditionals	Paolo Santorio and Alexis Wellwood