Pro^3 Publications

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Editorial work

Franke, Michael & Kompa, Nikola & Liu, Mingya & Mueller, Jutta L. & Schwab, Juliane (eds.). 2020. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24,2 Vol. 2. Universität Osnabrück and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/28
Franke, Michael & Kompa, Nikola & Liu, Mingya & Müller, Jutta & Schwab, Juliane (eds.). 2020. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24,1 Vol. 1. Universität Osnabrück and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/27
Bade, Nadine & Berezovskaya, Polina & Schöller, Anthea (eds.). 2016. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20. Tübingen: semanticsarchive.net. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/7

Articles

Tiemann, Sonja & Beck, Sigrid. 2022. Incrementally Interpreting Presuppositions. In Hörnig, Robin & Wietersheim, Sophie von & Konietzko, Andreas & Featherston, Sam (eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data, 45–63. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15496/PUBLIKATION-75924
Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Franke, Michael. 2021. Pragmatic Prediction in the Processing of Referring Expressions Containing Scalar Quantifiers. Frontiers in Psychology 12. 662050. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662050
Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Holler, Judith & Ozyurek, Asli & Roberts, Seán G. 2020. Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction. Royal Society Open Science 7(1). 182056. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.182056
Franke, Michael & Bergen, Leon. 2020. Theory-driven statistical modeling for semantics and pragmatics: A case study on grammatically generated implicature readings. Language 96(2). e77–e96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0034
Roettger, Timo B. & Franke, Michael. 2019. Evidential Strength of Intonational Cues and Rational Adaptation to (Un‐)Reliable Intonation. Cognitive Science 43(7). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12745
Hahn, Micheal & Degen, Judith & Goodman, Noah & Jurafsky, Dan & Futrell, Richard. 2018. An Information-Theoretic Explanation of Adjective Ordering Preferences. In Rogers, T. & Rau, M. & Zhu, X. & Kalish, C. (eds.), CogSci 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Madison, USA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0339/0339.pdf
Micklos, A. & Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Fay, N. 2018. The prevalence of repair in studies of language evolution. In Cuskley, C. & Flaherty, M. & Little, H. & McCrohon, L. & Ravignani, A. & Verhoef, T. (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII),.
Hawkins, Robert & Franke, Michael & Smith, Kenny & Goodman, Noah. 2018. Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. In Rogers, T. & Rau, M. & Zhu, X. & Kalish, C. (eds.), CogSci 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Madison, USA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0105/0105.pdf
Qing, Ciyang & Lassiter, Daniel & Degen, Judith. 2018. What do eye movements in the visual world reflect? A case study from adjectives. In Rogers, T. & Rau, M. & Zhu, X. & Kalish, C. (eds.), CogSci 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Madison, Wisconsin: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0440/0440.pdf
Roettger, Timo & Franke, Michael & Rogers, T. & Rau, M. & Zhu, X. & Kalish, C. 2018. Dynamic speech adaptation to unreliable cues during intonational processing. In CogSci 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Austin, Texas: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2018/papers/0193/0193.pdf
Schöller, Anthea & Franke, Michael. 2017. Semantic values as latent parameters: Testing a fixed threshold hypothesis for cardinal readings of “few” & “many.” Linguistic Vanguard 3(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0072
Brochhagen, Thomas & Franke, Michael & van Rooij, Robert. 2016. Learning biases may prevent lexicalization of pragmatic inferences: a case study combining iterated (Bayesian) learning and functional selection. In Papafragou, A. & Grodner, D. & Mirman, D. & Trueswell, J.C. (eds.), CogSci 2016 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Philadelphia, USA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2016/papers/0362/paper0362.pdf
Herbstritt, Michele & Franke, Michael. 2016. Definitely maybe and possibly even probably: efficient communication of higher-order uncertainty. In Papafragou, A. & Grodner, D. & Mirman, D. & Trueswell, J.C. (eds.), CogSci 2016 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Philadelphia, USA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2016/papers/0455/paper0455.pdf
Franke, Michael & Jäger, Gerhard. 2016. Probabilistic pragmatics, or why Bayes’ rule is probably important for pragmatics. Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft 35(1). 3–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2016-0002
Franke, Michael & Schlotterbeck, Fabian & Augurzky, Petra. 2016. Embedded Scalars, Preferred Readings and Prosody: An Experimental Revisit. Journal of Semantics 34(1). 153–199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffw007
Franke, Michael. 2016. Task types, link functions & probabilistic modeling in experimental pragmatics. In Salfner, Fabienne & Sauerland, Uli (eds.) 56–63. ZAS Berlin. Retrieved from https://www.xprag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TiXPrag-preproc.pdf
Schöller, Anthea & Franke, Michael. 2016. How many “manys”? Exploring semantic theories with data-driven computational models. In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, 622–639. University of Tübingen. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/285
Franke, Michael & Dablander, Fabian & Schöller, Anthea & Bennett, Erin & Degen, Judith & Tessler, Michael Henry & … Goodman, Noah D. 2016. What does the crowd believe? A hierarchical approach to estimating subjective beliefs from empirical data. In Papafragou, A. & Grodner, D. & Mirman, D. & Trueswell, J.C. (eds.), CogSci 2016 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,. Philadelphia, USA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2016/papers/0460/paper0460.pdf
Franke, Michael & Degen, Judith. 2016. Reasoning in Reference Games: Individual- vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling. PLoS ONE 11(5). 3–44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154854
Qing, Ciyang & Franke, Michael. 2015. Variations on a Bayesian Theme: Comparing Bayesian Models of Referential Reasoning. In Zeevat, Henk & Schmitz, Hans-Christian (eds.), Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics, 201–220. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17064-0_9
Schöller, Anthea & Franke, Michael. 2015. Semantic values as latent parameters: Surprising “few” & “many.” In D’Antonio, Sarah & Moroney, Mary & Little, Carol Rose (eds.) 143–162. Stanford University: LSA and CLC Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v25i0.3058
Degen, Judith & Tanenhaus, Michael K. 2015. Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint-Based Approach. Cognitive Science 39(4). 667–710. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12171
Degen, Judith & Tanenhaus, Michael K. 2015. Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study. Cognitive Science 40(1). 172–201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12227

Talks

Roberts, F. & Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Rohde, Hannah. 2020, June. [postponed to July 2021]. Non-actual ‘actual’: Expectations for upcoming figurative language arise from cues about message truth. Talk, Tel Aviv.
Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Roberts, F. & Rohde, Hannah. 2020, June. [postponed to January 2021]. Do truth-endorsing adjectives act as cues to non-literality in the processing of modified metaphors? A psycholinguistic investigation of English ‘actual’, ‘literal’, and ‘real.’ Talk, Tübingen.
Degen, Judith. 2019, September. Overinformativeness? Rationally redundant reference. Talk, Universität Osnabrück.
Schuster, Sebastian & Degen, Judith. 2019, June. Speaker-specific adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions. Talk, Edinburgh.
Degen, Judith. 2019, June. The Rational Speech Act framework:  an integrative theory of the interaction between literal meaning, world knowledge, and context. Talk, Edinburgh.
Schuster, Sebastian & Degen, Judith. 2018, September. Listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Franke, Michael. 2018, September. Rational predictive pragmatic processing. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Macuch, Vinicius & Franke, Michael. 2018, June. Reading quantified expressions in context: Does pragmatic surprisal or strategic attention allocation predict self-paced reading times? Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Holler, Judith & Ozyurek, Asli & Roberts, Seán G. 2018, April. Modality-specific effects on language emergence - and why looking at interaction also matters. Talk, Torun, Poland.
Franke, Michael & Augurzky, Petra. 2017, June. Incremental & predictive pragmatic interpretation: A rational analysis. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Retrieved from https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/phil-lang/images/abstracts.pdf
Schöller, Anthea. 2016, December. How many are many? Exploring context-dependence of few & many with computational models. Invited talk, University of Konstanz.
Schöller, Anthea & Franke, Michael. 2016, August. Many expectations about few balls. Talk, Wroclaw, Poland.
Brochhagen, Thomas & Franke, Michael & van Rooij, Robert. 2016, August. Learning biases may prevent lexicalization of pragmatic inferences: a case study combining iterated (Bayesian) learning and functional selection. Talk, Philadelphia, USA.
Herbstritt, Michele & Franke, Michael. 2016, August. Definitely maybe and possibly even probably: efficient communication of higher-order uncertainty. Talk, Philadelphia, USA.
Franke, Michael & Dablander, Fabian & Schöller, Anthea & Benett, Erin & Degen, Judith & Tessler, Michael & … Goodman, Noah. 2016, August. What does the crowd believe? A hierarchical approach to estimating subjective beliefs from empirical data. Talk, Philadelphia, USA.
Franke, Michael & Bergen, Leon. 2016, June. Embedded Scalars in Probabilistic Pragmatics. Talk, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Franke, Michael & van Tiel, Bob. 2016, June. Exclusive disjunction: implicature or …. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Franke, Michael. 2016, May. Probabilistic pragmatics & rational analysis. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Herbstritt, Michele & Franke, Michael. 2016, May. Use and interpretation of probability expressions under high-order uncertainty. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Franke, Michael & Bergen, Leon. 2016, February. Embedded scalars in probabilistic pragmatics. Talk, Konstanz.
Franke, Michael. 2016, January. Task types, link functions & probabilistic modeling in experimental pragmatics. Talk, ZAS Berlin. Retrieved from https://www.xprag.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TiXPrag-preproc.pdf
Franke, Michael & Degen, Judith. 2015, September. Probabilistic Computational Models in Experimental Pragmatics. Talk, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
Degen, Judith. 2015, August. Wonky Worlds: Modeling Prior Beliefs and Common Ground in Pragmatic Inference. Talk, Barcelona.
Tonhauser, Judith & Beaver, David & Degen, Judith & de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine & Roberts, Craige & Simons, Mandy. 2015, July. Negated evaluative adjective sentences: What projects, and why? Talk, Chicago.
Franke, Michael & Schoeller, Anthea. 2015, June. Few and many: A data-driven computational model to test a simple semantic idea. Talk, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Degen, Judith & Kao, Justine & Scontras, Gregory & Goodman, Noah D. 2015, June. An experimental investigation of the weakness and evidentiality of epistemic “must.” Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Franke, Michael & Schoeller, Anthea. 2015, June. Semantic values as latent pragmatic parameters: surprising few and many. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Franke, Michael & Schoeller, Anthea. 2015, May. Semantic values as latent pragmatic parameters: surprising few and many. Talk, Stanford University.
Franke, Michael. 2015, April. Expectations and thresholds: optimal lexical entries for ‘tall’, ‘many’, ‘probably’ and probably many more. Talk, Chicago.
Franke, Michael. 2015, March. Reasoning in Reference Games. Talk, Edinburgh.

Posters

Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Cummins, Chris & Franke, Michael. 2020, July. Modeling manipulative language use. Poster, online.
Franke, Michael & Macuch-Silva, Vinicius. 2019, November. Do German discourse particles eigentlich and tatsächlich modulate online expectations about intended meaning? Poster, ZAS Berlin.
Macuch Silva, Vinicius & Franke, Michael & Degen, Judith. 2018, June. Reading quantified expressions in context: Does pragmatic surprisal or strategic attention allocation predict self-paced reading times? Poster, Graz.
Röttger, Timo B. & Franke, Michael. 2018, March. Adapting to the unreliable: speech adaptation in real-time interpretation of intonation. Poster, University of California. Retrieved from https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/ahhu1ujo07muuqk041psn8lnwhrrro8f
Hahn, Michael & Futrell, Richard & Degen, Judith. 2018, March. Exploring? Adjective? Ordering Preferences via Artificial Language Learning. Poster, University of California. Retrieved from https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/8484j43v3msyn7grkezsamww86pge464
Qing, Ciyang & Lassiter, Daniel & Degen, Judith. 2018, March. What do eye movements in the visual world reflect? : A case study from adjectives. Poster, University of California.
Hahn, Michael & Futrell, Richard & Degen, Judith & Goodman, Noah & Jurafsky, Dan. 2018, March. Mutual Information Impacts Adjective Ordering Across Languages. Poster, University of California. Retrieved from https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/j6wvu5hycba4hq1eyy0v0xvp7gadwkfp
Tessler, Michael & Franke, Michael. 2018. Not unreasonable: Carving vague dimensions with contraries and contradictions. Poster, Madison, Wisconsin.
Qing, Ciyang & Lassiter, Daniel & Degen, Judith. 2018. What do eye movements in the visual world reflect? A case study from adjectives. Poster, Madison, Wisconsin.
Hawkins, Robert & Franke, Michael & Smith, Kenny & Goodman, Noah. 2018. Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. Poster, Madison, Wisconsin.
Roettger, Timo & Franke, Michael. 2018. Dynamic speech adaptation to unreliable cues during intonational processing. Poster, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Hahn, Michael & Degen, Judit & Goodman, Noah & Jurafsky, Dan & Futrell, Richard. 2018. An Information-Theoretic Explanation of Adjective Ordering Preferences. Poster, Madison, Wisconsin.
Franke, Michael & Degen, Judith & Macuch Silva, Vinicius. 2017, September. Probabilistic modeling of pragmatic processing and utterance production. Poster, Cologne.
Schöller, Anthea & Franke, Michael. 2017, July. Surprisingly: Marker of Surprise: Readings or Intensifier. Poster, London, UK.
Kreiss, Elisa & Degen, Judith & Hawkins, Robert X.D. & Goodman, Noah. 2017, June. Mentioning atypical properties of objects is communicatively efficient. Poster, Universität zu Köln. Retrieved from https://xprag2017.uni-koeln.de/sites/xprag2017/user_upload/KreissDegenHawkinsGoodman.pdf
Schöller, Anthea & Franke, Michael. 2016, September. Many expectations about “compared to.” Poster, Utrecht.
Franke, Michael & Schöller, Anthea. 2016, June. Many expectations about few balls. Poster, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Kao, Justine & Degen, Judith & Goodman, Noah. 2015, July. When all means not all: nonliteral interpretations of universal quantifiers. Poster, University of Chicago.
Franke, Michael & Schöller, Anthea. 2015, June. Talking about probability: Approximately optimal thresholds for probable. Poster, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Gotzner, Nicole & Degen, Judith & Goodman, Noah. 2015, June. Lost ALL of your marbles? The impact of the Question Under Discussion on embedded implicatures. Poster, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Degen, Judith & Goodman, Noah. 2015, March. Non-sinking marbles are wonky: world knowledge in scalar implicature computation. Poster, University of Southern California.
Kao, Justine & Degen, Judith & Goodman, Noah. 2015, March. When “all” means not all: nonliteral interpretations of universal quantifiers. Poster, University of Southern California.
Degen, Judith & Kao, Justine & Scontras, Gregory & Goodman, Noah. 2015, March. A Cost and Information-Based Account of Epistemic ‘must. Poster, University of Southern California.
Franke, Michael & Schöller, Anthea. 2015. /few/ and /many/: A data-driven computational model to test a simple semantic idea. Poster, Tübingen University.