ELM 4 Program

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All in-person Main sessions are held in the Tedori Auditorium in the Levin Building.

SessionTime#TitleAuthors
INVITED ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: MODALITY IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION09:00-9:25001TBAValentine Hacquard
09:25-9:50002TBAWooJin Chung
09:50-10:15003TBANicolò Cesana-Arlotti
10:15-10:45004Panel DiscussionValentine Hacquard, WooJin Chung, Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti
10:45-11:00Break
Main 1.1
Chair: Tech:
11:00-11:30052Emotion entailments modulate projection inferencesYvonne Kilian, Judith Tonhauser
11:30-12:00085Preverbal logical inferences scaffold early comprehension of verbal disjunction: an experimental study with young preschoolersChiara Saponaro, Mahham Fayyaz, Grace Pavalko, Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti
12:00-12:30101Distinguishing between request and permission in directives: Children’s acquisition of lexical and prosodic cuesDespoina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Mary Baltazani, Katerina Iliopoulou, Irini Amanaki, Manuela Genitsaridi, Mary Kaniadaki, Danae Karatzanou, Marina Mastrokosta
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
Parallel-1.I13:30-14:30Parallel Short Talks (sessions Ia & Ib)
14:30-15:00Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Parallel-1.II15:00-15:50Parallel Short Talks (sessions IIa & IIb)
15:50-16:00Break
Main 1.2
Chair: Tech:
16:00-16:30041Free Choice in Desire AscriptionsWojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz
16:30-17:00099Hybrid approaches to free choice: Evidence from acquisitionLyn Tieu, Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli
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Break
EveningInformal Social Gathering(s) (co-ordinate on EdDiscucssion!)

SessionTime#TitleAuthors
Parallel-1.Ia. Chair: Tech: 13:30-14:3037Weak and Strong Epistemic Operators in Assertions, Polar Questions and Declarative QuestionsManfred Krifka
13:30-14:3040Experimental Evidence for Cross-linguistic Differences in Subject-Verb Agreement Use: Dutch vs. Italian Children in Wh-Question ProcessingAtty Schouwenaars, Angeliek van Hout, Fabrizio Arosio
13:30-14:3049An experimental investigation on Italian addirittura in sentence-initial positionBeatrice Giustolisi, Salvatore Pistoia-Reda, Letizia Raminelli
13:30-14:3058Transitioning developmental paths in modal flavors: an experimental pilot studyKurt Erbach, Remus Gergel
13:30-14:3064Agreement with disjunctive subjects in French: Investigating a semantic hypothesisLyn Tieu, Shawn Lin, Gittel Markman, Kelly Truong, Adina Camelia Bleotu
13:30-14:3060Linguistic packaging affects information recall in children and adultsLyn Tieu, Alyssa Vorobey
Parallel-1.Ib. Chair: Tech: 13:30-14:3063Person distinctions are generalized across Number: Evidence from language learningFang Wang, Mora Maldonado
13:30-14:3074The influence of a contrastive context on negation processingElisabeth Eichler, Jacopo Torregrossa, Irene Mognon, Angela Grimm
13:30-14:3067Reanalysis as last resort revisited: Evidence from eye-tracking and the mazeBuhan Guo, Andrea Santi, Shayne Sloggett, Giuseppina Turco, Sven Mattys, Nino Grillo
13:30-14:3069When negation is produced: Looking at the interaction between discourse relations and the polarity of the preceding sentenceElisabeth Eichler, Jacopo Torregrossa, Irene Mognon, Angela Grimm
13:30-14:3059Null Objects of Grooming Verbs and Reflexivity in Child RomanianAdina Camelia Bleotu, Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Thomas Roeper
13:30-14:3076The acquisition path of expressing social meaning in the grammar of requests – From modality to sentence moodLaura Reimer, Andreas Trotzke
Parallel-1.IIa. Chair: Tech: 15:00-15:5077Testing the tests: A re-evaluation of at-issueness diagnostics across modalitiesLennart Fritzsche, Sebastian Walter
15:00-15:5086Comprehension of negated sentences across languages: Does linear position of negation matter?Petra Schulz, Esther Rinke, Svetlana Mnogogreshnova, Clara Vilà Dolado, Sol Lago
15:00-15:5091Another Look at Children’s Conjunctive Interpretation of Disjunction: Evidence from a Picture Selection Task with PPI DisjunctionGiulio Ciferri Muramatsu
15:00-15:50110The effect of sentence-level focus on scope resolution in negated sentences: When preschoolers’ focus comprehension is adult-likeBalázs Surányi, Máté Gulás
15:00-15:50116Accessibility of semantic content across discourse boundariesWeijie Xu, Hailin Hao, Sanghee J. Kim
Parallel-1.IIb. Chair: Tech: 15:00-15:50128Adjunctive Coordination: The case of German 'samt'Michael Wagner
15:00-15:509Double licensing of NPIs and inferential reasoning: an experimental studyMojmír Dočekal, Lucie Chumchalová
15:00-15:5025Some is still not all, even in face-threatening contexts: revisiting Bonnefon et al. (2009)Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Margot Cobat, Katie Hemberger, Jieun Lee, Somin Park, Esther Acheampong
15:00-15:5030Predictability affects both pronoun production and interpretation: evidence from an interactive taskMora Maldonado, Laia Mayol

SessionTime#TitleAuthors
Main-2.1
Chair: Tech:
09:00-10:00005TBAKyle Rawlins
10:00-10:30123Tracking (in)definiteness in a language without determiners: Revisiting the Tangram taskGregory Antono, Yibin Wang, Daphna Heller
10:30-11:00Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Main-2.2. Chair: Tech:11:00-11:30031Adults Readily Use Agent and Patient Categories to Guide Explicit Categorization of Event ParticipantsHanna-Sophia Shine, Irene Canudas Grabolosa, Jesse Snedeker
11:30-12:00109First- and second-person pronouns in self-talk: On the semantics of talking to myselfElsi Kaiser
12:00:12:30045What is seen as impossible depends on what question we askGabor Brody, Katrina Azar, Frank Keil
12:30-13:30Lunch Break (Lunch provided in SAIL room)
Posters 113:30-14:30Posters 1
14:30-15:00Break
Main-2.3. Chair: Tech: 15:00-15:30073Evidence for Adaptation in Scalar Implicature CalculationEszter Ronai, Jiayi Lu, Anzi Wang, Jiaming Feng
15:30-16:00132Predicting the discourse dynamics of imprecision from adjectival scale structureYifan Wu, Helena Aparicio, Julian Grove
16:00-16:30Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Main-2.4. Chair: Tech: 16:30-17:00140Semantic adaptation supports pragmatic reasoningHelena Aparicio
17:00-17:30094Why isn’t “twenty-eight” “ten ten eight”?Kexin Que, Lance Rips
Break
18:30:20:30Dinner at Love City Brewing Company (registration & contribution required, 2-hour window with open wine & beer bar and food. Open-ended afterwards on your own tab). See here for details:

#TITLEAUTHORS
19Generics are not Quantificational.F71. Poster available on EdDiscussion. Not presenting in personGustavo Cilleruelo Calderón, Mahrad Almotahari, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch
89Meaning in Context: Adults’ Understanding of English Bare PluralsRuidi Huang, Anna Papafragou
83When demonstratives act like definites: Evidence from focus in MandarinNianpo Su, Helena Aparicio
137Aspectual similarity predicts sense similarityAaron Steven White, Scott Grimm, Lelia Glass
5Effects of morphosyntactic complexity on Pronoun Interpretation: Classifiers in MandarinXiaoyi Tang, Rebecca Tollan
6Evidence or cause? Children’s interpretations of French 'parce que' across readingsIsabelle Charnavel, Jill de Villiers, Stephanie Durrleman
13Is a tree more animate than the sun? Using the Implicit Association Task to study animacyLilia Rissman, Hannah Smith
15NALL is learnableZiling Zhu, Hedde Zeijlstra
16Processing Reclaimed SlursFilippo Domaneschi, Bianca Cepollaro, Alessandra Zappoli, Nicolò D'Agruma, Giulia Giunta, Simone Sulpizio
20Early interpretations of universal quantifiers in Dutch: The role of distributivityMieke Slim, Caroline Rowland
23QUD variability in naturalistic discourse predicts scalar inference variabilityXuetong Yuan, Minjae Joh, Ming Xiang
26Acquisition of uncertainty in Mandarin sentence-final particlesZixi Liu
32Three- and four-year-olds’ understanding of tense/aspect marking in finite and nonfinite embedded clausesElizabeth Swanson, William Zumchak, Jeffrey Lidz, Valentine Hacquard
34Speech Disfluency Guides Social Choices Through Inferred ReadinessJonathan Him Nok Lee, Anna Papafragou
35Logicality within an empirically-grounded typology of unacceptability judgmentsAlexandre Cremers, Wataru Uegaki
144French Modal Ellipsis And Anaphora: Testing The Epistemic RestrictionVictor Chamot, David Robin Müller, Anouk Dieuleveut
44Processing anaphora in negated and hypothetical discourseMorwenna Hoeks, Lisa Hofmann
47Composition-sensitive predictions: Incremental Processing of (Long Distance) ExperientialsNino Grillo, Buhan Guo, Shayne Sloggett, Keir Moulton
48Children struggle with conditional disjunction but not with explicit conditionalsAdina Camelia Bleotu, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu, Anton Benz, Thomas Roeper
57Children’s interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese imperfective past tense: Acquiring its habitual readingLuciana Aparecida Paraguassu Amaral, Atty Schouwenaars, Angeliek van Hout, Ana Lucia de Paula Müller
62Crosslinguistic individuation ratings: Interaction between entity type and number system. Poster available on EdDiscussion. Not presenting in personJiang Wu, Leticia Pablos Robles, Jenny Doetjes
66Is negation encoded systematically in homesign systems? An experimental investigationDanielle Novak, Victor Gomes, Marie Coppola, Jesse Snedeker, Annemarie Kocab
84The role of linear order in presupposition projectionAlexandros Kalomoiros, Florian Schwarz, Jacopo Romoli
81I want another life': An experimental approach to the disambiguation of "otro"Patricia Amaral, Karina Di Franco
149Color & lexicalized scalarity: edgless bounded scales, semantic representation of graded property scales, and innovative experimental backup (IA-based software developments).Eugenia M Rasia, Vicente Tuset Mayoral, Damian Monti Falicoff, Vicenç Tuset, Carlos Ciliberti

SessionTime#TitleAuthors
Main-3.1. Chair Tech: 09:00-10:00006TBAJennifer Culbertson
10:00-10:30115Eliciting Demonstratives in Context: A Real-World Task for Labrador InuttitutGregory Antono, Susana Bejar, Daphna Heller
10:30-11:00Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Main-3.2. Chair: Tech: 11:00-11:30087Constraints on syntactic-conceptual mapping: the learnability of ‘inverse verbs’Tyler Knowlton, Alon Hafri
11:30-12:00092The Semantics of Control: Evidence from English Control ShiftShannon Bryant, Mark C Baker
12:00-12:30029When does 'hope' neg-raise?: An experimental report on four languagesZahra Mirrazi, Ziling Zhu, Hedde Zeijlstra
12:30-13:30Lunch Break (Lunch provided in SAIL room)
Posters 213:30-14:30Posters 2
14:30-15:00Break
Main-3.3. Chair: Tech: 15:00-15:30036Does spoken and gestural manner modification differ in at-issueness?Tina Nägele, Cornelia Ebert, Britta Stolterfoht
15:30-16:00135Presupposition of AltQs Revisited : The View from Child LanguageYixuan Yan
16:00-16:30Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Main-3.4. Chair: Tech: 16:30-17:30007TBAEllen Lau
EveningInformal Social Gathering(s)

#TITLEAUTHORS
147Development of Pragmatic Meaning Comprehension: Insights from Japanese-speaking Children’s Comprehension of an Implied Meaning Arising from a ParticleAyumi Nobuki, Utako Minai
145English Reflexive Use is Mediated by Event Role ConstrualShannon Bryant, Kristen Syrett
88Informativeness and the Distinction Between ‘Basic-Level’ vs. Superordinate VerbsRuidi Huang, Isabelle Chapman, Anna Papafragou
82A tale of two predicates: Predicting projection variation between know and be rightNoa Attali, Yvonne Kilian, Gregory Scontras, Judith Tonhauser
148Modal Competition in Inferential Contexts: Evidence from Force-Choice ExperimentsSarah Boukendour, Utku Turk, Alexander Williams, Valentine Hacquard
95Context effects in the interpretation of \textit{furniture}Landi Jiang, Alexis Wellwood
96On dancers and ballerinas: experimental evidence for a meaning-based perspective on nominal event argumentsCarolin Reinert, Carla Spellerberg
102Comparing the Learnability of Different Modal Systems in an Artificial LanguageMarie-Léa Le Clainche, Mora Maldonado, Anouk Dieuleveut
105Not all scalar implicatures are derived from utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisitionPaloma Jeretic, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland
111Pronoun resolution in right node raising: Explorations in ellipsisElsi Kaiser, Andy Zhang
113Contrastive inferences across languages and across modalitiesYiqian Wang, Chloe Frey, Nozomi Tomita, Kathryn Davidson
114Adjective Gender Stereotypes Shape Coreferential Dependency FormationCassandra Davenport, Eszter Ronai
117Inferring Together: The Asymmetry Constraint on Revisionist ReportingXander MacSwan, Tomasz Zyglewicz
122Evidence in children’s input for the meanings of 3-argument constructional homonymsAllison Dods
124The effects of persona racialization on perceptions of pragmatic (im)precisionMikaela Belle Martin, Andrea Beltrama
127The Role of Prosody in the Interpretation of Negated Conjunction and Disjunction in English and HungarianKaroly Virag, Casey D. Felton, Masoud Jasbi
131Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified RepresentationsGriffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz, Jake Quilty-Dunn, Eric Mandelbaum, Spencer Caplan
133Signatures of ComparisonNatasha Thalluri, Kathryn Davidson
3Reclaiming Slurs: Evidence from PupillometryFilippo Domaneschi, Giulia Giunta, Bianca Cepollaro, Nicolò D'Agruma, Simone Sulpizio
138The context-sensitivity of subordinate clause selectionStephanie N. Richter, Aaron Steven White
139Semantic-World Knowledge Interactions During ProcessingEmma Wing, Whitney Tabor
141Negative Strengthening and Speaker Adaptation in Metalinguistic DisagreementsEmily Pecsok, Helena Aparicio
142Not so hard: Children produce appropriate sentence completions following negationBriony Waite, Kimi Costello, Victor Gomes, Jesse Snedeker
38Reading measures as a window into QUD accommodation: Evidence from correctionsMorwenna Hoeks, Amanda Rysling, Maziar Toosarvandani
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