List of Programme Publications

Papers

Chris Cummins, Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Granularity and scalar implicature in numerical expressions (in prep.)

Francesca Foppolo, Luisa Meroni, Marco Marelli and Andrea Gualmini. The only one strategy : maximal commit yourself or maximal exploit what you get (submitted in Linguistics and Philosophy)

Hanna Weilan, Valentina Bambini and Petra Schumacher. Event-related brain potentials of masked priming while listening to metaphors and metonymies (in prep.)

Judith Degen and Richard Breheny. The role of lexical alternatives in different forms of pragmatic processing (in prep.)

Marta Ghio, Petra Schumacher and Valentina Bambini. Sensicality judgments and the metaphor/metonymy distinction (in prep.)

Petra Schumacher, Valentina Bambini and Hanna Weilan. Event-related brain potentials of masked priming while listening to sentences (submitted in Psychophysiology)

Samer Al Khatib, Peter Pagin and Uli Sauerland. Acceptable Contradictions: Pragmatics or Semantics? A Reply to Cobreros et al. (submitted in Journal of Philosophical Logic)

Valentina Bambini, Marta Ghio, Lewis Bott and Petra Schumacher. Time course of figurative language processing: A speed-accuracy tradeoff study (in prep.)

 

Talks

Catherine Davies. Over-Informative Children. University of Kent, March 2011.

Catherine Davies. Over-Informative Children. Middlesex University, February 2011.

Chris Cummins. Drawing and cancelling granularity-based inferences. Looking at Language Acquisition workshop, 11 May 2010, Cambridge.

Chris Cummins. Modelling the pragmatic effects of approximation. Workshop Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers (VQ2), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), December 2010.

Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos. What is the speaker’s context when selecting numerically quantified expressions? DGfS 33rd Annual Meeting, working group Implicatures and Discourse Structure. Göttingen, February 2011.

Chris Cummins, Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Experimental evidence for implicatures with modified numerals. 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, January 2011.

Chris Cummins, Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. Implicatures and modified numerals. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Chris Cummins, Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt. More than 100 implicatures. DGfS 33rd Annual Meeting, working group Implicatures and Discourse Structure.  Göttingen, February 2011.

Cornelia Ebert and Britta Stolterfoht. An experimental investigation of long-distance indefinites in English and German. SFB 732, University of Stuttgart.

Emmanuel Chemla, Vincent Homer and Daniel Rothschild. Phenomena involving alternatives: experimental comparison. Workshop on Alternative-Based Semantics Nantes, October 29-30, 2010.

Francesca Ervas. A Missing Bridge between Social Knowledge and Mind-reading. University of Poznan, December 2010

Francesca Ervas. Le rôle des stéréotypes sociaux dans la compréhension du langage non littéral chez un groupe d’adultes avec autisme de haut niveau. EHESS Postdoctoral Seminar, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, February 2011.

Francesca Ervas and Tiziana Zalla. They are all like that. Social Stereotypes and Irony Comprehension in High-functioning Autism. Workshop on Irony Comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Jean Nicod Institut, April 2011.

Francesca Foppolo, Luisa Meroni, Marco Marelli and Andrea Gualmini. Being 'the only one' means everything. 17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing.

John Tomlinson and Lewis Bott. Order implicatures are faster (but less accurate) than explicit meaning. 17th Annual AmLAP Conference, Paris, September 2011.

John Tomlinson, Lewis Bott and Todd Bailey. Understanding literal meanings before pragmatic inference. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Kasia Bromberek-Dyzman. Experimenting with affective valence: Ironic and non-ironic comments on-line processing. Workshop on Irony Comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Jean Nicod Institut, April 2011.

Kyriakos Antoniou and Napoleon Katsos. Only some listeners reject under-informative utterances.  Why? 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Luisa Meroni, Francesca Foppolo, Marco Marelli and Andrea Gualmini. Being 'the only one' requires maximal commitment. New Trends in Experimental Psycholinguistics, Madrid, September 2011.

Napoleon Katsos and Clara Andres-Roqueta. What is the cause of pragmatic impairment in adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders? Child Language Seminar, Newcastle University, Newcastle, June 2011.

Napoleon Katsos, Ewa Haman and Aneta Miekisz. On the acquisition of semantic/pragmatic and morphosyntactic competence by Polish-English bilingual children. Child Language Seminar, City University, London, June 2010.

Napoleon Katsos, Gerlinde Grosse, Cornelia Schulze and Michael Tomasello. Scalar implicature as contrastive inference. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Nausicaa Pouscoulsous. ”The elevator’s buttocks”: metaphors for children. Beyond the Words Symposium, Leipzig, May 2010.

Paula Rubio-Fernández and Sam Glucksberg. The cognitive costs and benefits of encoding and interpreting colour adjectives. Nijmegen Workshop on Recent Advances in Mindreading Research, January 2011.

Paula Rubio-Fernández. Colours and colores. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Raquel Fernandez. Common Ground and Granularity of Referring Expressions. Workshop 'Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers (VQ2)', ZAS Berlin, December 2010.

Stephen Butterfill. Mindreading and Joint Action. Heidelberg, May 2011.

Stephen Butterfill. Minimal theory of mind. Psychology Department, Warwick University, November 2010.

Tiffany Morisseau, Danielle Matthews and Catherine Davies. Children's Comprehension of Over- and Under-informative Utterances. SRCD, Montreal, March-April 2011.

Tiffany Morisseau, Danielle Matthews and Catherine Davies. Children's Comprehension of Over- and Under-informative Utterances. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Valentina Bambini and Marta Ghio. Processing metaphor and metonymy: Experimental investigations. Workshop “Cognitive approaches to figurative language”, University of Pisa, April 2011.

 

Posters

Cornelia Ebert, Tania Ionin, and Britta Stolterfoht. One indefinite escapes scope ilsands more readily than another: an experimental pragmatics study of indefinite scope. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Francesca Ervas and Tiziana Zalla. "They are all like that". Social Stereotypes and Irony Comprehension in High-functioning Autism. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Francesca Foppolo, Luisa Meroni, Marco Marelli and Andrea Gualmini. You are “the only one”…how far do we go in search for referents? 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Hanna Weilan, Valentina Bambini and Petra Schumacher. Priming literal meaning during figurative composition. A masked-priming ERP study. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Hanna Weilan, Valentina Bambini and Petra Schumacher. The role of literal meaning in metaphor comprehension: An ERP study with masked priming. Workshop “Creating and appreciating creative figurative language”, University of Heidelberg, May 2011.

John Tomlinson, Lewis Bott and Todd Bailey. Understanding literal meanings before pragmatic inference. 24th Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Stanford University, March 2011.

Kriszta Szendroi. Blocking quantifier raising with passives. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Nausicaa Pouscoulsous and Mike Tomasello. Very early metaphor understanding. SRCD, Montreal, March-April 2011.

Nausicaa Pouscoulsous and Mike Tomasello. Very early metaphor understanding. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.

Stavros Assimakopoulos, John Tomlinson and Lewis Bott. Understanding the dynamics of interpretation: pragmatic enrichment and different types of non-literal speech. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Barcelona, June 2011.