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Books

Gotzner, Nicole. 2017. Alternative sets in language processing: How alternatives are represented in the mind. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52761-1

Articles

Mazzarella, Diana & Gotzner, Nicole. 2021. The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: dissociating adjectival polarity from facethreatening potential. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 6(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1342
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2020. Embedded implicature: what can be left unsaid? Linguistics and Philosophy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09310-x
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo & Santorio, Paolo. 2020. Choice and prohibition in non-monotonic contexts. Natural Language Semantics 28. 141–174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-019-09160-9
Gotzner, Nicole. 2019. Disjunction, conjunction and exhaustivity. On remind-me presuppositions and embedded question acts. Snippets: Special Issue in Honor of Uli Sauerland (37). 35–36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-gotz
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2019. Quantifier “irgendein” and local implicature. Snippets: Special Issue in Honor of Uli Sauerland 37. 10–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7358/snip-2019-037-bego
Gotzner, Nicole. 2019. The role of focus intonation in implicature computation: a comparison with only and also. Natural Language Semantics 27(3). 189–226. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-019-09154-7
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina. 2019. The life and times of focus alternatives: Tracing the activation of alternatives to a focused constituent in language comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass 13(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12310
Leffel, Timothy & Cremers, Alexandre & Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo. 2019. Vagueness in Implicature: The Case of Modified Adjectives. Journal of Semantics 36(2). 317–348. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffy020
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo. 2018. The Scalar Inferences of Strong Scalar Terms under Negative Quantifiers and Constraints on the Theory of Alternatives. Journal of Semantics 35. 95–126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffx016
Gotzner, Nicole & Benz, Anton. 2018. The Best Response Paradigm: A New Approach to Test Implicatures of Complex Sentences. Frontiers in Communication 2. 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2017.00021
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole & Raithel, Lisa. 2018. Embedded implicature in a new interactive paradigm. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 60. 205–221. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.463
Benz, Anton & Bombi, Carla & Gotzner, Nicole & Sauerland, Uli. 2018. Scalar diversity and negative strengthening. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 22 60. 191–203. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.462
Gotzner, Nicole & Solt, Stephanie & Benz, Anton. 2018. Adjectival scales and three types of implicature. In Maspong, Sireemas & Stefánsdóttir, Brynhildur & Blake, Katherine & Davis, Forrest (eds.) 409–432. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge: Linguistic Society of America. Retrieved from https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/28.409/4054
Gotzner, Nicole & Solt, Stephanie & Benz, Anton. 2018. Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics. Frontiers in Psychology 9. 1659–1659. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01659
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2018. Embedded Disjunctions and the Best Response Paradigm. In Truswell, Rob & Cummins, Chris & Heycock, Caroline & Rabern, Brian & Rohde, Hannah (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Vol. 1, 163–178. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/130
Tomlinson Jr., John M. & Gotzner, Nicole & Bott, Lewis. 2017. Intonation and Pragmatic Enrichment: How Intonation Constrains Ad Hoc Scalar Inferences. Language and Speech 60. 200–223. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830917716101
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina. 2017. The connection between focus and implicatures: Investigating alternative activation under working memory load. In Domaneschi, Filippo & Pistoia-Reda, Salvatore (eds.), Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions, 175–198. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50696-8
Leffel, Timothy & Cremers, Alexandre & Romoli, Jacopo & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, August. Vagueness and the derivation of structural implicatures. Retrieved from https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003091
Gotzner, Nicole & Wartenburger, Isabell & Spalek, Katharina. 2016. The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives. Language and Cognition 8(1). 59–95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2015.25
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina. 2016. The role of contrastive and non-contrastive associates in the interpretation of focus particles. Discourse Processes 54. 638–654. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2016.1148981
Benz, Anton. 2016. On Bayesian pragmatics and categorical predictions. Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft 35(1). 45–55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2016-0003
Gotzner, Nicole. 2015. What’s included in the set of alternatives? Psycholinguistic evidence for a permissive view. In Csipak, Eva & Zeijlstra, Hedde (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung 19, 252–267. University of Göttingen. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2015.v19i0.232
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina. 2014. Exhaustive inferences and additive presuppositions: Interplay of focus operators and contrastive intonation. In Degen, Judith & Franke, Michael & Goodman, Noah D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop at ESSLLI 2014, 7–13. Tübingen. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/fepesslli2014/proceedings/proceedings.pdf
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2014. Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the Truth-Value Judgment Paradigm. In Degen, Judith & Franke, Michael & Goodman, Noah D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop at ESSLLI 2014, 1–6. Tübingen. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/fepesslli2014/proceedings/proceedings.pdf

Talks

Gotzner, Nicole. 2020, September. Gradable adjectives and exhaustivity. Invited talk, Graz/ZAS Berlin online.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia & Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2020, September. Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic! Talk, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from https://www.elm-conference.net/2020-conference/program/full-list-of-presentations/
Gotzner, Nicole. 2020, June. The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives. Invited talk, Potsdam University, Germany.
Breheny, Richard & Sun, Chao & Gotzner, Nicole & Benz, Anton. 2020, March. Diverse mechanisms explain scalar diversity. Talk, Hamburg.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2019, September. Language in Interaction – How Children and Adults Communicate. Talk, Futurium Berlin.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2018, November. The semantic and pragmatic function of focal pitch accents in German and English. Invited talk, University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo & Santorio, Paolo. 2018, November. Free choice and theories of implicature. Talk, University of Nantes.
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo & Santorio, Paolo. 2018, November. Free choice and theories of implicature. Talk, ENS, Paris.
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo & Santorio, Paolo. 2018, October. More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. Talk, UCL London.
Gotzner, Nicole & Solt, Stephanie & Benz, Anton. 2018, October. Adjectival scales and three types of implicature. Talk, UCL London.
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo & Santorio, Paolo. 2018, October. More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Hesse, Christoph. 2018, September. Giving the wrong impression: Strategic use of  comparatively modified numerals in  a question answering system. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2018, September. Producing implicature of complex sentences: The case of embedded some. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2018, September. The role of prosody in pragmatic processing. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2018, June. Implicature of complex sentences: a comprehensive study and model. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2018, March. Scalar implicature and negative strengthening: What it takes to be happy. Talk, Stanford University.
Benz, Anton. 2018, March. AG 16 Applications of probability theory in linguistics: Inferring implicature from production:  Interactive experiments and a model. Talk, Universität Stuttgart.
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina. 2018, March. Speakers’ expectations about upcoming discourse  referents: Effects of pitch accents and focus particles. Talk, Universität Stuttgart. Retrieved from https://www.dgfs2018.uni-stuttgart.de/arbeitsgruppen/ag-2/AG02-Gotzner-Spalek.pdf
Hesse, Christoph. 2018, February. Scalar implicatures of modified numerals. Talk, Szklarska Poręba, Poland.
Benz, Anton. 2018, February. Implicature from production: Interactive experiments and a model. Talk, Jelenia Góra, Poland.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2017, October. Semantic and pragmatic effects of focus particles in language processing. Talk, Universität Heidelberg.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2017, October. Alternativen im Diskurs. Invited talk, University of Bielefeld.
Benz, Anton & Bombi, Carla & Gotzner, Nicole. 2017, September. Scalar diversity and negative strengthening. Talk, ZAS Berlin & Potsdam University. Retrieved from https://sinnundbedeutung22.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/benz_bombiferrer_gotzner_abstract.pdf
Spalek, Katharina & Gotzner, Nicole & Bergmann, Beate. 2017, June. How focus particles affect what we will talk about next. Talk, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole & Raithel, Lisa. 2017, March. The best response paradigm: Testing for the corner of efficiency. Talk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2017, March. The best response paradigm: Testing for the corner of efficiency. Talk, Szklarska Poręba, Poland. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/site/szklarskaporeba18/programme
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, September. Embedded disjunctions and the best response paradigm. Talk, University of Edinburgh.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, June. The Interactive Best Response Paradigm: Taking into account the production of sentences with scalar terms. Talk, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, June. Embedded disjunctions and the Best Response Paradigm. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, May. The best response: Speaker rationality in an interactive paradigm. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, January. Multiple scalar terms: New insights from disjunction and production data. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Leffel, Timothy & Cremers, Alexandre & Romoli, Jacopo & Gotzner, Nicole. 2016, January. “Not very” Adj: Vagueness and implicature calculation. Talk, Washington.
Gotzner, Nicole & Benz, Anton. 2015, September. Testing implicatures of complex sentences. Talk, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo. 2015, July. Testing theories of alternatives on sentences with multiple scalar items. Talk, University of Chicago.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2015, July. The role of activated alternatives in inference computation and language acquisition. Invited talk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gotzner, Nicole & Benz, Anton. 2015, June. The best response paradigm: A new paradigm to test implicatures of complex sentences. Talk, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Gotzner, Nicole & Benz, Anton. 2015, June. The best response paradigm: A new paradigm to test implicatures of complex sentences. Talk, ZAS Berlin.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2015, March. Testing the relationship between intonational focus, the activation of alternatives and implicature computation. Talk, University of Siena.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2014, December. Exhaustivity and models of implicature computation. Invited talk, University of Utrecht.
Benz, Anton. 2014, October. Implicature in complex sentences from a game-theoretic perspective. Talk, Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Gotzner, Nicole. 2014, September. What’s included in the set of alternatives? Psycholinguistic evidence for a permissive view. Talk, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Benz, Anton. 2014, August. The Game-Theoretic Approach to Pragmatics: Analysing Different Kinds of implicature. Talk, SDU Kolding, DK.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2014, August. Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the Truth-Value Judgment Paradigm. Talk, Tübingen.
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina. 2014, August. Exhaustive inferences and additive presuppositions: Interplay of focus operators and contrastive intonation. Talk, Tübingen.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2014, May. Implicatures of Complex Sentences: Some Theory and Some Experiments. Talk, University of Bochum.

Posters

Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2020, February. Generating embedded implicatures: A theory and experimental evidence. Poster, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Sun, Chao & Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole & Breheny, Richard. 2019, November. Approaching scalar diversity using multiple mechanisms. Poster, ZAS Berlin.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2019, November. Embedded Implicatures in Comprehension and Production. Poster, ZAS Berlin.
Sun, Chao & Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole & Breheny, Richard. 2019, June. Approaching scalar diversity through RSA with Lexical Uncertainty. Poster, Edinburgh.
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2019, June. Embedded implicatures in comprehension and production. Poster, Edinburgh.
Bleotu, Adina Camelia. 2019, June. On the acquisition of scalar epistemic adverbs in child Romanian from a colouring perspective. Poster, Edinburgh. Retrieved from https://www.xprag2019.ppls.ed.ac.uk/abstracts/bleotu.pdf
Gotzner, Nicole & Mazzarella, Diana. 2019, June. Politeness and negative strengthening. Poster, Edinburgh.
Gotzner, Nicole & Jördens, Kim A. & Spalek, Katharina. 2019. The composition of focus alternative set: Can carpets be an alternative to figs?: Can carpets be an alternative to figs? Poster, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
Hesse, Christoph & Benz, Anton. 2018, September. Two mechanisms of scalar implicature in comparatively modified numerals. Poster, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo & Santorio, Paolo. 2018, May. More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. Poster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Retrieved from https://salt28mit.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/gotznerromolisantorio-free-choice.pdf
Gotzner, Nicole & Solt, Stephanie & Benz, Anton. 2018, May. Scalar implicature and negative strengthening in different types of gradable adjectives. Poster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Retrieved from https://salt28mit.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/gotzner_solt_benz.pdf
Gotzner, Nicole & Raithel, Lisa & Benz, Anton. 2018, March. Communicative efficiency and implicature in multi-party conversation. Poster, University of California. Retrieved from https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/jgxkg6rmrss5uaqhgdjml5pk6pwin6xf
Benz, Anton & Raithel, Lisa & Gotzner, Nicole. 2017, September. Embedded implicature: What can be left unsaid? Poster, ZAS Berlin & University of Potsdam. Retrieved from https://sinnundbedeutung22.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/benz_raithel_gotzner_abstract.pdf
Benz, Anton & Gotzner, Nicole. 2017, June. Embedded implicature: What can be left unsaid? Poster, Universität zu Köln. Retrieved from https://xprag2017.uni-koeln.de/sites/xprag2017/user_upload/BenzGotzner.pdf
Gotzner, Nicole & Romoli, Jacopo. 2016, September. Testing theories of alternatives with multiple scalar term sentences. Poster, University of Edinburgh.
Benz, Anton & Spychalska, Maria. 2016, June. Complexity and Embedded Implicature. Poster, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Gotzner, Nicole & Barner, David & Crain, Stephen. 2015, September. 4-5 year olds exhaustify disjunctive statements. Poster, University of Malta.
Gotzner, Nicole & Benz, Anton. 2015, September. The best response paradigm. A new paradigm to test implicit meaning. Poster, University of Malta.
Gotzner, Nicole & Barner, David & Crain, Stephen. 2015, July. What’s the alternative? How children compute implicatures with different scales. Poster, Chicago.
Benz, Anton & Spychalska, Maria. 2015, June. Complexity and Embedded Implicature. 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.
Gotzner, Nicole & Tomlinson, John Michael & Spalek, Katharina. 2015, March. The mechanisms underlying different types of (exhaustivity) inferences. Poster, University of Southern California.
Gotzner, Nicole & Spalek, Katharina & Wartenburger, Isabell. 2014, September. Alternative sets in language processing: The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition. Poster, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.