Several XPrag.de members will present at “Experimental Pragmatics 2015” to be held at the University of Chicago, July 16-18, 2015.
Talks by XPag.de members on Thursday, July 16th:
“Negated evaluative adjective sentences: What projects, and why?”
Judith Tonhauser (OSU), David Beaver (Texas), Judith Degen (project ProComPrag), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (OSU), Craige Roberts (OSU) and Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon)
“Experimental evidence for the difference between soft and hard triggers”
Sonja Tiemann and Nadine Bade (both project ObTrEx)
“Testing theories of alternatives on sentences with multiple scalar items”
Nicole Gotzner (project SIGames) and Jacopo Romoli (Ulster)
Posters by XPag.de members on Thursday, July 16th:
“Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study”
Anna-Christina Boell, Joseph Deveaugh-Geiss, Edgar Onea Gáspár and Malte Zimmermann (all project ExCl)
“What’s the alternative? How children compute implicatures with different scales”
Nicole Gotzner (project SIGames), David Barner (UCSD) and Stephen Crain (Macquarie)
“Indefinites and questions. An experimental approach.”
Edgar Onea (projects ExCl and SignRef) and Bastian Mayerhofer (Göttingen)
“Are there traces of historical change in the processing of metonymy?”
Petra Schumacher and Hanna Weiland-Breckle (both project InfoPer)
“Exhaustive and ignorance implicatures in partial answers”
John Michael Tomlinson (XPrag.de associate at ZAS) and Camilo Rodriguez-Ronderos (ZAS)
Posters by XPag.de members on Friday, July 17th:
“Domain Restriction Presupposed”
Nadine Bade and Sonja Tiemann (both project ObTrEx)
“When all means not all: nonliteral interpretations of universal quantifiers”
Justine Kao, Judith Degen (project ProComPrag) and Noah Goodman (Stanford)
“Levels of exclusivity”
Andreea Nicolae and Uli Sauerland (both project SSI)
“Exploring the ambiguity between the ‘at least’ and ‘exactly’ interpretation of bare numerals: Evidence from event-related brain potentials”
Maria Spychalska (XPrag.de associate at Ruhr University Bochum), Jarmo Kontinen (Ruhr University Bochum), Ira Noveck (XPrag.de Mercator Fellow, CNRS Lyon), Ludmila Rösch (Ruhr University Bochum) and Markus Werning (XPrag.de associate at Ruhr University Bochum)
“Faultless comparatives and the subjectivity of gradable adjective”
Stephanie Solt (XPrag.de associate at ZAS)
Talks by XPag.de members on Saturday, July 18th:
“How speaker-listener affiliations affect pragmatic inference-making”
Tiffany Morisseau (Central European University) and Ira Noveck (XPrag.de Mercator Fellow, CNRS Lyon)
“Eye-tracking the ham sandwich: The on-line processing of contextually instantiated metonymies”
Steve Frisson (Birmingham) and Petra Schumacher (project InfoPer)