Programm XPrag 2017

   

We have created a repository on Open Science Framework where participants can upload their posters and slides. We encourage everyone to take advantage of this opportunity to make their work available to one another as well as to those who are unable to attend the conference.

A pdf with the updated program (as of June 14, 2017) and all abstracts in alphabetical  order can be found here .

  

Tuesday, 20.06.2017	19:00	Informal get-together	at Maybach (with registration desk)
Wednesday, 21.06.2017	12:30	Registration
	13:00	Welcome
	13:15	Jennifer Rodd	How do listeners understand the meanings of ambiguous words?
	14:15	Coffee break
	14:45	Catherine Davies, Vincent Porretta, Kremena Koleva and Ekaterini Klepousniotou	Do speaker-specific cues influence ambiguous word interpretation?
	15:15	Paolo Canal, Luca Bischetti, Simona Di Paola and Valentina Bambini	Social abilities help us detecting jokes: An EEG study on the temporal dynamics of humor comprehension
	15:45	Andrea Beltrama	Subjective assertions are weak: an experimental study on perspective-dependent meaning
	16:15	Coffee break
	16:45	Elspeth Wilson and Napoleon Katsos	Speaker epistemic state and ad hoc quantity implicatures in children
	17:15	Kyriakos Antoniou, Alma Veenstra, Mikhail Kissine and Napoleon Katsos	How does childhood bilingualism and bi-dialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of implicature?
	17:45	Irene Symeonidou and Wing Yee Chow	Through the eyes of a teenager: complexity of real-time Theory of Mind inferences in language comprehension
	18:15	Poster session I (see below)	(with drinks and snacks)
Thursday, 22.06.2017	9:30	Bruno Galantucci	Experimental Semiotics: What is it? What is it good for?
	10:30	Coffee break
	11:00	Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Giulio Dulcinati	Quantity implicatures in a competitive game
	11:30	Diana Dimitrova, Brian McElree and Petra Schumacher	Speed and accuracy trade-off and their link to neural processes of meaning composition
	12:00	Felix Frühauf, Berry Claus, Sophie Repp, Manfred Krifka and Anna Marlijn Meijer	Two response systems for German 'ja' and 'nein'? Evidence from usage preference data and interpretation data
	12:30	Lunch break	check out restaurant map
	14:00	Ming Xiang, Chris Kennedy and Allison Kramer	Threshold adaptation and its time course
	14:30	Christina Kim and Louisa Salhi	Visual contrast, discourse contrast and conceptual convention
	15:00	Judith Holler, Kobin Kendrick and Stephen Levinson	Turn-timing and the body: Gestures play a core role in coordinating conversation
	15:30	Coffee break & photo
	16:00	Poster session II (see below)
	18:30	Conference dinner	at UndSohn
Friday, 23.06.2017	9:30	Kathryn Davidson	Combining continuous and discrete representations in speech, sign, and gesture
	10:30	Coffee break
	11:00	Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Jakub Dotlaèil and Rick Nouwen.	Pragmatic effects attested in online interpretation of "more than" and "at least"
	11:30	Teodora Mihoc and Kathryn Davidson	Testing a PPI analysis of superlative modified numerals
	12:00	Alice Rees and Lewis Bott	Investigating shared representations in implying and inferring
	12:30	Lunch break	check out restaurant map
	14:00	Mikhail Kissine	What Autism Spectrum Disorder can teach us about pragmatics
	15:00	Coffee break
	15:30	Martien Wampers and Walter Schaeken	Scalar Implicatures And The Literal-First Hypothesis: Theory Of Mind And Working Memory Effects In Pragmatic Inferences By Patients With Psychosis
	16:00	Bob van Tiel and Mikhail Kissine	Pragmatic impairment is selective in autism: evidence from quantity implicatures
	16:30	Oliver Bott	Immediate use of discourse context in aspectual coercion - An eyetracking during reading study
	17:00	Farewell
	17:30	Cultural event	Street art tour or historic city walk

 

Talk Alternates:

1.  Judith Holler, Kobin Kendrick and Stephen Levinson. Turn-timing and the body: Gestures play a core role in coordinating conversation
2. Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil and Andreas Brocher. Do German demonstrative pronouns avoid prominent perspectival centers?
3. Paula Rubio-Fernandez and Julian Jara-Ettinger. A new Director task: Modelling common ground through referential specificity
4. Diana Mazzarella, Emmanuel Trouche, Hugo Mercier and Ira Noveck. Believing what you're told: Politeness and scalar inferences

Poster session I:

1. Alix Kowalski and Yi Ting Huang. Listeners encode multiple meanings when generating scalar inferences --> canceled, see poster on OSF
2. Jeffrey Geiger and Ming Xiang. Ellipsis in context: The interaction of identity and discourse salience
3. Claudia Poschmann. At-issue: Non-restrictive relative clauses
4. Sophie Egger, Bettina Braun and Nicole Dehé. The realization of bouletic bias: Evidence from German questions
5. Guilio Dulcinati and Nausicaa Pouscoulousinati. Scalar implicatures in non-cooperative contexts
6. Richard Breheny, Chao Sun and Ye Tian. Rates of scalar inferences beyond ‘some’ – A corpus study
7. Cecília Molnár, Beáta Gyuris and Katalin Mády. Evidential bias and polar questions – the division of labour in Hungarian
8. Daniele Panizza and John M. Jr. Tomlinson. Pragmatic inferences towards prototypical meanings. A visual world study.
9. Laia Mayol. Asymmetries between interpretation and production in Catalan pronouns
10. Tamás Káldi, Anna-Christina Boell and Anna Babarczy. Contextual effects on the processing of Hungarian pre-verbal focus sentences: an eye-tracking study
11. Simona Di Paola, Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Filippo Domaneschi. Metaphorical Developing Minds: The role of multiple Factors in the Development of Metaphor Comprehension
12. Erlinde Meertens, Andrea Beltrama and Maribel Romero. Polar Questions, "or not" Alternative Questions and Complement Alternative Questions: an experimental study
13. Nadine Bade. Processing Antipresuppositions
14. Cécile Barbet and Guillaume Thierry. When 'some' triggers a scalar inference out of the blue. An electrophysiological study of a Stroop-like conflict elicited by single words
15. Eva Link, Holger Schneider, Kristina Schopf, Marcel Schwille, Franziska Rück and Barbara Kaup. Does it matter who is producing an utterance? – Effect of speaker identity in utterances without self-reference
16. Elisa Kreiss, Judith Degen, Robert Hawkins and Noah Goodman. Mentioning atypical properties of objects is communicatively efficient
17. Francesca Foppolo, Francesca Panzeri, Greta Mazzaggio and Luca Surian. Find a friend or a scale mate: comparing ad hoc and scalar implicatures
18. Charlotte Out, Martijn Goudbeek and Emiel Krahmer. Alignment in Naturalistic Dialogue: Language Production in Interactive Reference Production
19. Jarang Kwak, Haejin Kim, Soyoung Kwon and Donghoon Lee. Influence of Interpersonal Variables during Utterance Comprehension: A Neurophysiological Investigation with the Korean Honorific System
20. Anton Benz, Nicole Gotzner and Lisa Raithel. Embedded implicature: What can be left unsaid?
21. Alma Veenstra and Napoleon Katsos. When children accept under-informative utterances: Lack of competence or pragmatic tolerance?
22. Bing Ngo and Elsi Kaiser. Referential form production in Vietnamese: Effects of modality and topicality --> canceled, see poster on OSF

 

Poster session II:

1. Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil and Andreas Brocher. Do German demonstrative pronouns avoid prominent perspectival centers?
2. Judith Holler, Kobin Kendrick and Stephen Levinson. Turn-timing and the body: Gestures play a core role in coordinating conversation --> (alternate) talk on Thursday 15:00
3. Paula Rubio-Fernandez and Julian Jara-Ettinger. A new Director task: Modelling common ground through referential specificity --> canceled, see poster on OSF
4. Diana Mazzarella, Emmanuel Trouche, Hugo Mercier and Ira Noveck. Believing what you're told: Politeness and scalar inferences
5. Debora Rossi, Simona Di Paola and Filippo Domaneschi. The Aging Factor in Presuppositions Processing
6. Filippo Domaneschi and Simona Di Paola. The Processing Costs of Presupposition Accommodation
7. Verena Keite, Ralf Klabunde and Eva Belke. Alternatives in processing ad-hoc implicatures
8. Corien Bary, Daniel Altshuler, Kristen Syrett and Peter de Swart. Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports
9. Saskia Brockmann and Nadine Bade. Evidence for global pronoun resolution
10. Myrto Pantazi, Mikhail Kissine and Olivier Klein. Automatic Content Accommodation: Direct Perception and Meta-Cognitive Vigilance
11. Margaret Kroll and Matthew Wagers. Interaction of parentheticals, (not-)at-issue content, and working memory
12. Heather Burnett and Barbara Hemforth. A Bayesian Game-Theoretic Approach to Cross-Linguistic Variation
13. Elli Tourtouri, Francesca Delogu and Matthew Crocker. Over-specification and uniform reduction of visual entropy facilitate referential processing
14. Maria Spychalska, Ludmila Reimer, Petra Schumacher and Markus Werning. Scalar implicatures in the context of full and partial information. Evidence from ERPs.
15. Stephanie Solt, Jon Stevens and Brandon Waldon. "Some" approximations: an experimental investigation
16. Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz. Returning to Non-entailed Presuppositions Again
17. Ye Tian and Chris Cummins. Top-down and bottom-up cues to speech acts
18. Chao Sun and Richard Breheny. On the compositional interpretation of scalar quantifiers: The role of the residue set
19. Amanda Pogue and Michael Tanenhaus. Exploring how speakers mark, and listeners assess, certainty
20. Stanley Donahoo and Vicky Tzuyin Lai. What the hell? What swearing can tell us about conventional implicatures
21. Sarah Dolscheid, Franziska Schleussinger and Martina Penke. Different pragmatic interpretations of German ‘eine’ (a/one) in children and adults
22. Andreas Trotzke. Approaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally --> canceled
23. Viola Schmitt and Daniele Panizza. What and means: a study on the intersective vs. non-intersective construal of VP-and

 

Canceled talk: Galit W. Sassoon, Natalia Meir, Julie Fadlon, David Anaki and Petra B. Schumacher. The acceptability, processing and neural signature of nominal gradability. --> see slides on OSF

 

Satellite Workshop

 

Revising formal semantic and pragmatic theories from a neurocognitive perspective

 Bochum, 19-20 June 2017

Over the last few decades we observe a growing interest in using experimental methods to investigate semantic and pragmatic theories. Experimental pragmatics has become a flourishing interdisciplinary research area. Aside from behavioral methods, such as reaction time measurement, eye-tracking and acceptability judgments, researchers have become increasingly interested in investigating language processing on the neural level and by this means shedding more light on semantic and pragmatic theories. To this end, they employ techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Although this enterprise has resulted in a large amount of interesting data about linguistic processing, the interpretation of these results remains debated with respect to their relevance for more formal theories of meaning.  On the one hand, it often is difficult to formulate clear processing predictions for semantic and pragmatic theories, on the other hand, the theoretical interpretation of the activations observed with neuroimaging tools is not fully understood. As a result, the neurolinguistics and formal semantic/pragmatic communities remain still rather disjoint. In this workshop we would like to bridge the gap and discuss the challenges of combining the two approaches.

 

Invited speakers

Valentina Bambini

Harm Brouwer

Ira Noveck

Steve Politzer-Ahles

Petra Schumacher

 

Organizers

Maria Spychalska & Markus Werning

Contact: maria.spychalska@rub.de

 

Abstract

Extended Deadline: April 10, 2017