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Postdoc position in multilingual sentence processing available at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM)
For more information, see
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/prim/resources/123_2015_PRIM.pdf
XPrag.de at “Experimental Pragmatics 2015” the University of Chicago, July 16 – 18, 2015
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)
List of accepted papers in our workshop on “Experimental Pragmatics” at SLE 2015 available.
The list of accepted paper that will be presented in our workshop on “Experimental Pragmatics” at the Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2015) in Leiden is now available here!
XPrag.de Junior Fellowships available.
XPrag.de offers fellowships for post-doc researchers at various German institutions. Apply until June 20th! Details can be found here!
XPrag.de members Clare Patterson and Claudia Felser are organising a thematic session at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism
Clare Patterson and Claudia Felser from project L2PronRes in Potsdam are organising a thematic session entitled “Second language processing of pronouns: evidence from eye-tracking” at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 20-24 May, 2015.
XPrag.de member Judith Degen published two articles in ‘Cognitive Science’
XPrag.de member Judith Degen (project “ProComPrag”) published two articles on the processing of scalar implicatures together with Michael K. Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) in the journal ‘Cognitive Science’: “Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study“ and “Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint-Based Approach“.
Michael Franke is invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of “The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 51)”
XPrag.de member Michael Franke from project “ProComPrag” in Tübingen is invited speaker at the Annual Meeting of “The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 51)”, which will take place at the University of Chicago, April 23-25, 2015. Michael will talk on “Expectations and thresholds: optimal lexical entries for ‘tall’, ‘many’, ‘probably’ and probably many more”.
Stephanie Solt is invited speaker at the workshop “Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives”
XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin) is invited speaker at the workshop “Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives”, which will take place in Madrid, at the Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Spanish National Research Council, on May 28th and 29th, 2015. Stephanie will give a talk on “Multidimensionality, subjectivity and scales: experimental evidence”.
Petra Schumacher is invited speaker at the workshop “Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives”
XPrag.de coordinator Petra Schumacher from project “InfoPer” is invited speaker at the workshop “Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives”, which will take place in Madrid, at the Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Spanish National Research Council, on May 28th and 29th, 2015. Petra will give a talk on “Processing vagueness: The online comprehension of adjective-noun combinations”.