Annual Meeting 2015 in Göttingen

The Annual Meeting 2015 is organized by the “German Department”, the “Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute of Psychology” and the “Courant Research Center ‘Text Structures'”: Anke Holler (ProProCon), Nivedita Mani (SignRef), Edgar Onea (ExCl, SignRef), Markus Steinbach (SignRef), Thomas Weskott (ProProCon)

Time:
June, 26th – 27th 2015

Venue:
Uni-Bibliothek Göttingen, Historisches Gebäude, 1. OG, Alfred-Hessel-Saal, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen
(→Directions)

Registration fee: 25€

Contact:
Tanja Recke: trecke-Irgend ein Text-@gwdg.de; +49 551 39 9844

Thursday, 25.06.2015

Meeting of Semantiknetzwerk “Questions in Discourse”
(Program and Directions)

19:00 Warming-up at Kartoffel-Haus

Program

Friday, June 26th 2015

Time	Event
9:00 – 9:45	Registration
9:45 – 10:00	Welcome
10:00 – 11:00	Making empirical generalizations from experimental pragmatic findings: What can be resolved Invited talk by Ira Noveck (CNRS Lyon)
11:00 – 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:15	When perspective taking takes place – evidence from the referential communication game (Project CoGCI)
12:15 – 13:00	Bias in Polar Questions An Empirical Characterization of PQS in German and English (Project BiasQ)
13:00 – 14:30	LUNCH BREAK (Meeting Steering Board)
14:30 – 15:30	Children’s comprehension of negation: When can you say “no” to a toddler? Invited talk by Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University)
15:30 – 16:15	Puzzling response particles: an experimental study on German ja and nein (Project YesNo)
16:15 – 18:00	Poster session
	Contextually driven agent demotion in impersonal passives and agentivity in German (AATIC) Putting aspectual coercion in context – evidence from eyetracking during reading (CiC) Two Emprirical Studies On Exhaustivity Inferences & It-Clefts (ExCl) The influence of prosody on thematic role assignment during real time spoken language comprehension in five-year old German children (FoTeRo) On real and fake things (InfoPer) The application of binding condition C in strong crossover configurations in German (L2PronRes) One- versus two-step models of language comprehension: Investigations employing negative sentences(MoLCINS) Obligatory triggers under negation (ObTrEx) Talking about probability: approximately optimal thresholds for probable(ProComPrag) A methodological comparison of implicit causality biases between sentence completion tasks and mousetracking (ProProCon) Distinguishing Discourse Referents: A Unified DRT-Analysis of R-Loci in Sign Languages and Gender in Spoken Languag (SignRef) Priming scalar inferences (SSI) Complexity and Embedded Implicature (Benz/Spychalskaja) On the interaction of implicit verb causality and topic continuation (Bott/Hörnig/Solstad/Weskott) Joint Inference in Pragmatic Reasoning: Evaluating Probabilistic Models of Embedded Implicatures (Franke/Bergen) Lost ALL of your marbles? The impact of the Question Under Discussion on embedded implicatures (Gotzner/Degen/Goodman) Scalar implicature processing in high-functioning autism (Spychalska/Schumacher/Vogeley/Werning) Implicatures in production: Informativity vs. effort (Yatsushiro/Katsos)
19:00	Dinner at Fellini, Groner-Tor-Str. 28

Saturday, June 27th 2015

Time	Event
10:00 – 11:00	Invited Talk by Michael C. Frank (Stanford University)
11:00 – 11:45	The best response paradigm: A new paradigm to test implicatures of complex sentences (SIGames)
11:45 – 12:15	COFFEE BREAK
12:15 – 13:00	Few and many: A data-driven computational model to test a simple semantic idea (ProComPrag)
13:00 – 13:45	Disjunction in child language: A defense of Pippi Longstocking (Project SSI)
13:45	Closing