ELM 4 Program

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(Abstracts linked from titles; click on tabs to switch between types of sessions):

All times EDT

Zoom links on EdDiscussion and reminder emails to registered participants
All in-person Main sessions are held in the Tedori Auditorium in the NBS Building.

In person Poster Sessions are held in the SAIL room and lobby of the NBS Building.

Main 1 (Wed 6/10, virtual)
Parallel (Wed 6/10, virtual)
Main 2 (Th 6/11, in person)
Posters I (Th 6/11, in person)
Main 3 (F 6/12, in person)
Posters II (F 6/12, in person)

Session	Time	#	Title	Authors
INVITED ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: MODALITY IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION (Moderator: Paloma Jeretic; Tech chair: Mingyang Bian)	09:00-9:25	001	Invited Panel Presentation: Modal language in development	Valentine Hacquard
	09:25-9:50	002	Invited Panel Presentation: Modal reasoning as a model of conversational relevance	WooJin Chung
	09:50-10:15	003	Invited Panel Presentation: Modal Decisions in Non-Human Primates	Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti
	10:15-10:45	004	Panel Discussion	Valentine Hacquard, WooJin Chung, Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti
	10:45-11:00	Break
Main 1.1 Chair: Lyn Tieu Tech: Mingyang Bian	11:00-11:30	052	Emotion entailments modulate projection inferences	Yvonne Kilian, Judith Tonhauser
	11:30-12:00	085	Preverbal logical inferences scaffold early comprehension of verbal disjunction: an experimental study with young preschoolers	Chiara Saponaro, Mahham Fayyaz, Grace Pavalko, Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti
	12:00-12:30	101	Distinguishing between request and permission in directives: Children’s acquisition of lexical and prosodic cues	Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Mary Baltazani, Katerina Iliopoulou, Irini Amanaki, Manuela Genitsaridi, Mary Kaniadaki, Danae Karatzanou, Marina Mastrokosta
	12:30-13:30	Lunch Break (on your own)
Parallel-1.I	13:30-14:30	Parallel Short Talks (sessions Ia & Ib)	Ia: SAIL room (111) in NBS	Ib: Room 200 in Goddard (restricted access; arrive on time!)
	14:30-15:00	Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Parallel-1.II	15:00-15:50	Parallel Short Talks (sessions IIa & IIb)	IIa: SAIL room (111) in NBS	IIb: Room 200 in Goddard (restricted access; arrive on time!)
	15:50-16:00	Break
Main 1.2 Chair: Michael Wagner Tech: Mingyang Bian	16:00-16:30	041	Free Choice in Desire Ascriptions	Wojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz
Main 1.2 Chair: Michael Wagner Tech: Mingyang Bian	16:30-17:00	099	Hybrid approaches to free choice: Evidence from acquisition	Lyn Tieu, Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli
Break
	Evening	Informal Social Gathering(s) (co-ordinate on EdDiscucssion!)

Session	Time	#	Title	Authors
Parallel-1.Ia. Chair: Despina Oikonomou Tech: Jonathan Lee. In person viewing: SAIL room in the NBS Building	13:30-14:30	37	Weak and Strong Epistemic Operators in Assertions, Polar Questions and Declarative Questions	Manfred Krifka
	13:30-14:30	40	Experimental Evidence for Cross-linguistic Differences in Subject-Verb Agreement Use: Dutch vs. Italian Children in Wh-Question Processing	Atty Schouwenaars, Angeliek van Hout, Fabrizio Arosio
	13:30-14:30	49	An experimental investigation on Italian addirittura in sentence-initial position	Beatrice Giustolisi, Salvatore Pistoia-Reda, Letizia Raminelli
	13:30-14:30	58	Transitioning developmental paths in modal flavors: an experimental pilot study	Kurt Erbach, Remus Gergel
	13:30-14:30	64	Agreement with disjunctive subjects in French: Investigating a semantic hypothesis	Lyn Tieu, Shawn Lin, Gittel Markman, Kelly Truong, Adina Camelia Bleotu
	13:30-14:30	60	Linguistic packaging affects information recall in children and adults	Lyn Tieu, Alyssa Vorobey
Parallel-1.Ib. Chair: Mojmır Docekal Tech: Yourdanis Sedarous. In person viewing: SAIL room in room 200 of Goddard Building (restricted access; arrive on time!)	13:30-14:30	63	Person distinctions are generalized across Number: Evidence from language learning	Fang Wang, Mora Maldonado
	13:30-14:30	74	The influence of a contrastive context on negation processing	Elisabeth Eichler, Jacopo Torregrossa, Irene Mognon, Angela Grimm
	13:30-14:30	67	Reanalysis as last resort revisited: Evidence from eye-tracking and the maze	Buhan Guo, Andrea Santi, Shayne Sloggett, Giuseppina Turco, Sven Mattys, Nino Grillo
	13:30-14:30	69	When negation is produced: Looking at the interaction between discourse relations and the polarity of the preceding sentence	Elisabeth Eichler, Jacopo Torregrossa, Irene Mognon, Angela Grimm
	13:30-14:30	59	Null Objects of Grooming Verbs and Reflexivity in Child Romanian	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Monica Alexandrina Irimia, Thomas Roeper
	13:30-14:30	76	The acquisition path of expressing social meaning in the grammar of requests – From modality to sentence mood	Laura Reimer, Andreas Trotzke
Parallel-1.IIa. Chair: Alexandre Cremers Tech: Maggie Kandel. In person viewing: SAIL room in the NBS Building	15:00-15:50	77	Testing the tests: A re-evaluation of at-issueness diagnostics across modalities	Lennart Fritzsche, Sebastian Walter
	15:00-15:50	86	Comprehension of negated sentences across languages: Does linear position of negation matter?	Petra Schulz, Esther Rinke, Svetlana Mnogogreshnova, Clara Vilà Dolado, Sol Lago
	15:00-15:50	91	Another Look at Children’s Conjunctive Interpretation of Disjunction: Evidence from a Picture Selection Task with PPI Disjunction	Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu
	15:00-15:50	110	The effect of sentence-level focus on scope resolution in negated sentences: When preschoolers’ focus comprehension is adult-like	Balázs Surányi, Máté Gulás
	15:00-15:50	116	Accessibility of semantic content across discourse boundaries	Weijie Xu, Hailin Hao, Sanghee J. Kim
Parallel-1.IIb. Chair: Helena Aparicio Tech: Ruidi Huang. In person viewing: SAIL room in room 200 of Goddard Building (restricted access; arrive on time!)	15:00-15:50	128	Adjunctive Coordination: The case of German 'samt'	Michael Wagner
	15:00-15:50	9	Double licensing of NPIs and inferential reasoning: an experimental study	Mojmír Dočekal, Lucie Chumchalová
	15:00-15:50	25	Some 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
	15:00-15:50	30	Predictability affects both pronoun production and interpretation: evidence from an interactive task	Mora Maldonado, Laia Mayol

Session	Time	#	Title	Authors
	8:30-9:00	Morning Coffee
Main-2.1 Chair: Aaron White Tech: Ruidi Huang	09:00-10:00	005	Invited Talk: What is a thematic role?	Kyle Rawlins
Main-2.1 Chair: Aaron White Tech: Ruidi Huang	10:00-10:30	123	Tracking (in)definiteness in a language without determiners: Revisiting the Tangram task	Gregory Antono, Yibin Wang, Daphna Heller
	10:30-11:00	Break
Main-2.2. Chair: Alexander Williams Tech: Pristina Koon	11:00-11:30	031	Adults Readily Use Agent and Patient Categories to Guide Explicit Categorization of Event Participants	Hanna-Sophia Shine, Irene Canudas Grabolosa, Jesse Snedeker
	11:30-12:00	109	First- and second-person pronouns in self-talk: On the semantics of talking to myself	Elsi Kaiser
	12:00:12:30	045	What is seen as impossible depends on what question we ask	Gabor Brody, Katrina Azar, Frank Keil
	12:30-13:30	Lunch Break (Lunch provided in SAIL room)
Posters 1	13:30-14:30	Posters 1
	14:30-15:00	Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Main-2.3. Chair: Daphna Heller Tech: Maggie Kandel	15:00-15:30	073	Evidence for Adaptation in Scalar Implicature Calculation	Eszter Ronai, Jiayi Lu, Anzi Wang, Jiaming Feng
Main-2.3. Chair: Daphna Heller Tech: Maggie Kandel	15:30-16:00	132	Predicting the discourse dynamics of imprecision from adjectival scale structure	Yifan Wu, Helena Aparicio, Julian Grove
	16:00-16:30	Break
Main-2.4. Chair: Eszter Ronai Tech: Mikaela Martin	16:30-17:00	140	Semantic adaptation supports pragmatic reasoning	Helena Aparicio
Main-2.4. Chair: Eszter Ronai Tech: Mikaela Martin	17:00-17:30	094	Why isn’t “twenty-eight” “ten ten eight”?	Kexin Que, Lance Rips
Break
	18:30:21:30	Dinner at Love City Brewing Company (Callowhill location; 1023 Hamilton Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123); see travel details on In Person Attendance logistics page. NOTE: Moved to inside taproom in main brewery space, rather than garden

#	TITLE	AUTHORS
19	Generics are not Quantificational.	Gustavo Cilleruelo Calderón, Mahrad Almotahari, Emily Allaway, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch
89	Meaning in Context: Adults’ Understanding of English Bare Plurals	Ruidi Huang, Anna Papafragou
83	When demonstratives act like definites: Evidence from focus in Mandarin	Nianpo Su, Helena Aparicio
137	Aspectual similarity predicts sense similarity	Aaron Steven White, Scott Grimm, Lelia Glass
5	Effects of morphosyntactic complexity on Pronoun Interpretation: Classifiers in Mandarin	Xiaoyi Tang, Rebecca Tollan
6	Evidence or cause? Children’s interpretations of French 'parce que' across readings	Isabelle Charnavel, Jill de Villiers, Stephanie Durrleman
13	Is a tree more animate than the sun? Using the Implicit Association Task to study animacy	Lilia Rissman, Hannah Smith
15	NALL is learnable	Ziling Zhu, Setayesh Dashti, Hedde Zeijlstra
20	Early interpretations of universal quantifiers in Dutch: The role of distributivity	Mieke Slim, Caroline Rowland
23	QUD variability in naturalistic discourse predicts scalar inference variability	Xuetong Yuan, Minjae Joh, Ming Xiang
26	Acquisition of uncertainty in Mandarin sentence-final particles	Zixi Liu
32	Three- and four-year-olds’ understanding of tense/aspect marking in finite and nonfinite embedded clauses	Elizabeth Swanson, William Zumchak, Jeffrey Lidz, Valentine Hacquard
34	Speech Disfluency Guides Social Choices Through Inferred Readiness	Jonathan Him Nok Lee, Anna Papafragou
35	Logicality within an empirically-grounded typology of unacceptability judgments	Alexandre Cremers, Wataru Uegaki
144	French Modal Ellipsis And Anaphora: Testing The Epistemic Restriction	Victor Chamot, David Robin Müller, Anouk Dieuleveut
44	Processing anaphora in negated and hypothetical discourse	Morwenna Hoeks, Lisa Hofmann
48	Children struggle with conditional disjunction but not with explicit conditionals	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu, Anton Benz, Thomas Roeper
57	Children’s interpretation of Brazilian Portuguese imperfective past tense: Acquiring its habitual reading	Luciana Aparecida Paraguassu Amaral, Atty Schouwenaars, Angeliek van Hout, Ana Lucia de Paula Müller
62	Crosslinguistic individuation ratings: Interaction between entity type and number system.	Jiang Wu, Leticia Pablos Robles, Jenny Doetjes
66	Is negation encoded systematically in homesign systems? An experimental investigation	Danielle Novak, Victor Gomes, Marie Coppola, Jesse Snedeker, Annemarie Kocab
84	The role of linear order in presupposition projection	Alexandros Kalomoiros, Florian Schwarz, Jacopo Romoli
81	I want another life': An experimental approach to the disambiguation of "otro"	Patricia Amaral, Karina Di Franco

Session	Time	#	Title	Authors
	8:30-9:00	Morning coffee
Main-3.1. Chair: Gareth Roberts Tech: Emily Pecsok	09:00-10:00	006	Invited Talk: Information, meaning, and order: experimental explorations of nominal morphosyntax	Jennifer Culbertson
Main-3.1. Chair: Gareth Roberts Tech: Emily Pecsok	10:00-10:30	115	Eliciting Demonstratives in Context: A Real-World Task for Labrador Inuttitut	Gregory Antono, Susana Bejar, Daphna Heller
	10:30-11:00	Break
Main-3.2. Chair: Kristen Syrett Tech: Jonathan Lee	11:00-11:30	087	Constraints on syntactic-conceptual mapping: the learnability of ‘inverse verbs’	Tyler Knowlton, Alon Hafri
	11:30-12:00	092	The Semantics of Control: Evidence from English Control Shift	Shannon Bryant, Mark C Baker
	12:00-12:30	029	When does 'hope' neg-raise?: An experimental report on five languages	Zahra Mirrazi, Ziling Zhu, Luisa Kalvelage, Hedde Zeijlstra
	12:30-13:30	Lunch Break (Lunch provided in SAIL room)
Posters 2	13:30-14:30	Posters 2
	14:30-15:00	Coffee Break (provided in SAIL room)
Main-3.3. Chair: Greg Scontras Tech: Yourdanis Sedarous	15:00-15:30	036	Does spoken and gestural manner modification differ in at-issueness?	Tina Nägele, Cornelia Ebert, Britta Stolterfoht
Main-3.3. Chair: Greg Scontras Tech: Yourdanis Sedarous	15:30-16:00	135	Presupposition of AltQs Revisited : The View from Child Language	Yixuan Yan
	16:00-16:30	Break
Main-3.4. Chair: Elsi Kaiser Tech: Mikaela Martin	16:30-17:30	007	Invited Talk: Noun meaning and instance-of-kind conceptual structure	Ellen Lau
	17:30-19:00	Conference wind down: Wine reception with light snacks in SAIL room/ lobby

#	TITLE	AUTHORS
147	Development of Pragmatic Meaning Comprehension: Insights from Japanese-speaking Children’s Comprehension of an Implied Meaning Arising from a Particle	Ayumi Nobuki, Utako Minai
145	English Reflexive Use is Mediated by Event Role Construal	Shannon Bryant, Kristen Syrett
88	Informativeness and the Distinction Between ‘Basic-Level’ vs. Superordinate Verbs	Ruidi Huang, Isabelle Chapman, Anna Papafragou
82	A tale of two predicates: Predicting projection variation between know and be right	Noa Attali, Yvonne Kilian, Gregory Scontras, Judith Tonhauser
148	Modal Competition in Inferential Contexts: Evidence from Force-Choice Experiments	Sarah Boukendour, Utku Turk, Alexander Williams, Valentine Hacquard
95	Context effects in the interpretation of \textit{furniture}	Landi Jiang, Alexis Wellwood
96	On dancers and ballerinas: experimental evidence for a meaning-based perspective on nominal event arguments	Carolin Reinert, Carla Spellerberg
102	Comparing the Learnability of Different Modal Systems in an Artificial Language	Marie-Léa Le Clainche, Anouk Dieuleveut, Mora Maldonado
105	Not all scalar implicatures are derived from utterable alternatives: evidence from child language acquisition	Paloma Jeretic, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland
111	Pronoun resolution in right node raising: Explorations in ellipsis	Elsi Kaiser, Andy Zhang
113	Contrastive inferences across languages and across modalities	Yiqian Wang, Chloe Frey, Nozomi Tomita, Kathryn Davidson
114	Adjective Gender Stereotypes Shape Coreferential Dependency Formation	Cassandra Davenport, Eszter Ronai
117	Inferring Together: The Asymmetry Constraint on Revisionist Reporting	Xander MacSwan, Tomasz Zyglewicz
122	Evidence in children’s input for the meanings of 3-argument constructional homonyms	Allison Dods
124	The effects of persona racialization on perceptions of pragmatic (im)precision	Mikaela Belle Martin, Andrea Beltrama
127	The Role of Prosody in the Interpretation of Negated Conjunction and Disjunction in English and Hungarian	Karoly Virag, Casey D. Felton, Masoud Jasbi
131	Polysemy and Inference: Reasoning with Underspecified Representations	Griffin Pion, Elliot Schwartz, Jake Quilty-Dunn, Eric Mandelbaum, Spencer Caplan
133	Signatures of Comparison	Natasha Thalluri, Kathryn Davidson
138	The context-sensitivity of subordinate clause selection	Stephanie N. Richter, Aaron Steven White
139	Semantic-World Knowledge Interactions During Processing	Emma Wing, Whitney Tabor
141	Negative Strengthening and Speaker Adaptation in Metalinguistic Disagreements	Emily Pecsok, Helena Aparicio
142	Not so hard: Children produce appropriate sentence completions following negation	Briony Waite, Kimi Costello, Victor Gomes, Jesse Snedeker
38	Reading measures as a window into QUD accommodation: Evidence from corrections	Morwenna Hoeks, Amanda Rysling, Maziar Toosarvandani