Preliminary program
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 14:20-14:30 | Welcome |
| 14:30-15:30 | «An Epistemic Step for Presuppositional Implicatures» Invited talk by Paul Marty (ZAS Berlin) |
| 15:30-16:15 | «Can children extend pragmatic principles to non-linguistic scalar inferences?» Alyssa Kampa and Anna Papafragou (U Delaware) |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45-17:45 | «Plural Information States» Invited talk by Irene Heim (MIT) |
| 17:45-18:30 | «Degrees of Analyticity» Uli Sauerland and Salvatore Pistoia-Reda (ZAS Berlin and U Siena) |
Thursday, July 12, 2018
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | «Processing ellipsis: the circumstances of repair» Invited talk by Lyn Frazier (U Mass Amherst) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:15 | «Some implicatures are easier» Francesca Foppolo, Greta Mazzaggio, Francesca Panzeri and Luca Surian (U Milano-Bicocca and U Trento) |
| 12:15-13:00 | «The acquisition of presuppositional quantifers in Italian children» Alessandra Norgini (U Siena) |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30-15:30 | «A critical perspective on the Rational Speech Act model of scalar implicatures» Invited talk by Benjamin Spector (IJN Paris) |
| 15:30-16:15 | «Filtering free choice» Jacopo Romoli and Paolo Santorio (U Ulster and UCSD) |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45-17:30 | «Scalar implicature variability in adults and children: the case of ‘or’» Alan Munn, Rachel Stacey, Robert Feltster, Adam Smolinski, Adam Liter and Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University and U Maryland) |
| 17:30-18:15 | «Focus and topic propositions in why questions: An experimental study on Italian» Francesco Beltrame (U Siena) |
| 20:00 | Dinner t.b.a |
Friday, July 13, 2018
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | «Crosslinguistic similarities and differences in the order of acquisition of quantifiers» Invited talk by Napoleon Katsos (U Cambridge) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:15 | «Scalar implicatures with existential quantifiers in 5 year olds. Insights from a coloring book task» Adina Camelia Bleotu (U Bucharest) |
| 12:15-13:00 | «Why some and who are different: evidence from felicity judgments in adults» Istvan Fekete, Petra Schulz and Esther Ruigendijk (U Oldenburg and Goethe U Frankfurt) |