Annual Meeting 2016 in Tübingen

The Annual Meeting 2016 is organized by the XPrag.de projects at Tübingen University: “MoLCINS”, “ProComPrag”, “CiC” and “ObTrEx”.

Time and Venue:
June, 20th – 21th 2016, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, Fürstenzimmer (Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen)

Directions:
Go up to the castle Hohentübingen; cross the patio until coming to its end. On the left, there’s a door and a sign saying “Fürstenzimmer”. Enter and follow the staircase and the signs saying “Fürstenzimmer”. You’ll have to cross a balcony until you come to a big door on the right; enter, and after a few steps you’ll find a door on the left which leads to the “Fürstenzimmer”.

Contact:
irmgard.delavega-Irgend ein Text-@uni-tuebingen.de, xprag.de-Irgend ein Text-@gmail.com

Registration fee: 35€ to be paid at conference site

Sunday, 19.06.2016
20:00 Warming-up at Neckarmüller

Monday, June 20th 2016

Time	Event
9:00 – 9:45	Registration
9:45 – 10:00	Welcome
10:00 – 11:00	All hands business meeting, Topic: second funding period
11:00 – 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00	Right or left? An ERP study on discourse referents in German Sign Language Anne Wienholz, Derya Nuhbalaoglu, Annika Herrmann, Edgar Onea, Markus Steinbach, Nivedita Mani (SignRef)
12:00 – 12:30	Cataphoric pronoun resolution in native and non-native sentence comprehension Claudia Felser & Janna Drummer (L2PronRes)
12:30 – 14:00	LUNCH BREAK, Meeting Steering Board
14:00 – 15:00	Talk by Jesse Snedeker
15:00 – 15:15	COFFEE BREAK
15:15 – 17:00	Poster session at the Rittersaal!
	Agentivity Inferences and Verbal Aspect in German (AATIC) Aren’t You Sure You Want to Check Your Own Bias? Realization of Contradictory Bias, Certainty and Ownership in Negative Polar Questions (BiasQ) How common ground information affects reference resolution in children and adults: evidence from behavioral and neurophysiological measure (CoGCI) The influence of prosody on thematic role assignment in Hungarian adults (FoTeRo) Does Prosody influence Thematic Role Assignment during Real-Time Spoken Language Comprehension? Children vs. Adults (FoTeRo) The role of epistemic state in the processing of speaker’s meaning (InfoPer) The impact of focus on pronoun resolution in native and non-native comprehension (L2PronRes) Is the pragmatics of negation taken into account during reading? Evidence from an eye-tracking study (MoLCINS) Many expectations about few balls (ProComPrag) The presuppositional status of Agent-Evocator verbs and the influence of world knowledge on Implicit Causality biases (ProProCon) Do L2-Learners of German Use Triggers for Free Indirect Discourse in Perspective-Taking? (ProProCon) Free Choice Inferences: A Priming Study (SSI, Meyer) Referring to propositions ‘inside’ a negated one: The role of the subjunctive and of modal particles (YesNo, Meijer/Repp) Response particles: The case of English (in comparison to German) (YesNo, Repp et al) Particle responses to negative polar questions with high vs. low negation (YesNo, Claus et al) Quantifiers, pronouns, and cross–linguistic variation (XPrag.de Junior Fellow Anne Mucha) Focus associators only, even and most in sentence processing (XPrag.de Junior Fellow Barbara Tomaszewicz) Complexity and Embedded Implicature (Benz/Spychalska) On the interaction of implicit verb causality and topic continuation (Bott/Hörnig/Solstad/Weskott) Scalar implicature and epistemic content (Spychalska/Roesch/Schumacher/Vogeley/Werning) New Experimental approaches to the Maxim of quantity (Yatsushiro/Katsos) Facial Expressions and Speech Acts (Filippo Domaneschi from associated project EXPRESS) Testing theories of reference: The effect of the semantic domain in reference assignment (Filippo Domaneschi from associated project EXPRESS)
17:00 – 17:30	That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in it-clefts Joseph P. DeVeaugh-Geiss, Edgar Onea, Swantje Tönnes & Malte Zimmermann (ExCl)
17:30 – 18:00	Additives as a window into local exhaustivity implicatures Nadine Bade & Alexander Wimmer (ObTrEx)
19:00	Dinner at Mensa Prinz Karl, Hafengasse 6, 72070 Tübingen (this year covered by the registration fee)

Tuesday, June 21th 2016

Time	Event
9:30 – 10:00	Contextual Information is Immediately Available During Composition – Evidence from Eyetracking during Reading Oliver Bott (CiC)
10:00 – 10:30	Conjunctive Disjunction: A Japanese Counterexample to Grice’s Nondetachability Uli Sauerland, Ayaka Tamura, Masatoshi Koizumi, and Jack Tomlinson (SSI)
10:30 – 11:10	COFFEE BREAK
11:10 – 11:40	The Interactive Best Response Paradigm: Taking into account the production of sentences with scalar terms Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner (SiGames)
11:40 – 12:10	Embedded Scalars in Probabilistic Pragmatics Michael Franke (ProComPrag) & Leon Bergen (Stanford), Short-term collaboration project
12:10 – 12:30	Closing remarks