XPrag.de at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

Several XPrag.de members will present at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at University of Southern California on March 19-21, 2015.

On Friday, the 20th, Pia Knoeferle from project FoTeRo and XPrag.de Mercator Fellow Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) will give a talk together with Duygu Özge, Jaklin Kornfilt, Katja Münster and Aylin Küntay on “Comprehension of case in German children: Evidence against a maturational hypothesis” at 4:45 (abstract).

In addition, there are three poster sessions, one on each day of the conference, from 12:45-2:45pm. Here is the list of posters presented by XPrag.de members:

Thursday, 19th:

“A Cost and Information-Based Account of Epistemic ‘must'” (abstract)
Judith Degen (project ProComPrag), Justine Kao, Gregory Scontras and Noah Goodman

“Computation of number agreement in native and nonnative speakers of German” (abstract)
Sol Lago and Claudia Felser (project L2PronRes)

“Implying exhaustivity and ignorance in partial answers” (abstract)
John Michael Tomlinson, Jr. (XPrag.de associate) and Camilo RodriguezRonderos

“When “all” means not all: nonliteral interpretations of universal quantifiers (abstract)
Justine Kao, Judith Degen (project ProComPrag) and Noah Goodman

Friday, 20th:

“Effects of contrastive pitch accents on children’s encoding of discourse” (abstract)
Eun-Kyung Lee and Jesse Snedeker (XPrag.de Mercator Fellow)

“Filler complexity in filler-gap dependencies: Wh-extraction vs. topicalization” (abstract)
Constantin Freitag and Sophie Repp (project YesNo)

“Gaze cue versus recent event preference in spoken sentence comprehension: Evidence from eye tracking” (abstract)
Dato Abashidze and Pia Knoeferle (project FoTeRo)

“Non-sinking marbles are wonky: world knowledge in scalar implicature computation” (abstract)
Judith Degen (project ProComPrag) and Noah Goodman

“The mechanisms underlying different types of (exhaustivity) inferences” (abstract)
Nicole Gotzner (project SIGames), John Michael Tomlinson, Jr. (XPrag.de associate) & Katharina Spalek

“The online application of binding condition C in German pronoun resolution” (abstract)
Janna Drummer, Clare Patterson and Claudia Felser (all project L2PronRes)

Saturday, 21st

“Are all the triangles blue? ERP evidence from German quantifier restriction” (abstract)
Petra Augurzky, Oliver Bott (project CiC), Wolfgang Sternefeld and Rolf Ulrich

“Locality rules out variable binding in coreference resolution” (abstract)
Jens Roeser, Evgeniya Shipova, Shravan Vasishth and Malte Zimmermann (project ExCl)

“On the acquisition and interpretation of container phrases in English” (abstract)
Suzi Lima and Jesse Snedeker (XPrag.de Mercator Fellow)

“Psychological evidence for the ontology of events” (abstract)
Amy Geojo and Jesse Snedeker (XPrag.de Mercator Fellow)

“Whom did you read? – On type clashes and word senses” (abstract)
Petra B. Schumacher and Hanna Weiland-Breckle (both project InfoPer)