Workshop on “The Processing of Negation and Polarity”
← back to the workshop’s page
September 30 2020
Day 01, October 01 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 09:00-09:15 |
Warm-UP |
| 09:15-09:30 |
Opening |
| 09:30-10:15 |
Invited talk: David Beltrán
On the reuse of inhibitory mechanisms by negation |
| 10:15-10:40 |
Carolin Dudschig and Barbara Kaup
Negation and its associations in the non-linguistic domain |
| 10:40-11:10 |
COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes) |
| 11:10-11:35 |
Katharina Schaebbicke, Heiko Seeliger, and Sophie Repp
The landscape of German NPIs and their licensing conditions – a quantitative exploration |
| 11:35-12:00 |
Ira Noveck, Nicolas Petit, Ye Tian, and Guiseppina Turco
Going beyond semantics: The pragmatics of responding Si to a negative question |
| 12:00-12:45 |
Invited talk: Sophie Repp
Responses to negative questions: question bias and the meaning of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ |
| 12:45-13:45 |
LUNCH BREAK (60 minutes) |
| 13:45-14:10 |
Eva Klingvall and Fredrik Heinat
Monotone Decreasing Quantifiers and Polarity |
| 14:10-14:35 |
Natalia Zevakhina and Veronika Prigorkina
The role of negation, clause order and face in derivation of Conditional Perfection |
| 14:35-15:00 |
Mingya Liu and Mathias Barthel
The Semantics, Pragmatics and Processing of Conditional Connectives – German ‘wenn’, ‘nur wenn’, and ‘wenn und nur wenn’ |
| 15:00-16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION (90 minutes) |
|
- Elena Albu, Oksana Tsaregorodtseva, and Barbara Kaup
Contrary to expectations: Does context influence the processing cost associated with negation?
Link to poster
Link to video presentation
- Yanwei Jin and Jean-Pierre Koenig
The production and comprehension of expletive negation across languages
Link to poster
Link to video presentation
- Siqi Lyu and Chien-Jer Charles Lin
The time course of negation integration in establishing interclausal relations
Link to the poster and to the video presentation
- Martina Montalti, Marta Calbi, Valentina Cuccio, Giovanni Mirabella, Maria Alessandra Umiltà, and Vittorio Gallese
Is motor inhibition involved in the processing of sentential negation? An assessment via the Stop Signal Task
Link to video presentation
- Isabel Orenes
No effect of negation in counterfactual conditionals: Evidence from eye-tracking studies
Link to video presentation
- Nicolas Ruytenbeek
Negated adjectives: Disentangling inference to the antonym from linguistic acceptability
Link to poster
Link to video presentation
- Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu and Jutta Mueller
On the acquisition of polarity items: 11- to 12-year-olds’ comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs
Link to poster
Link to video presentation
|
| 16:30-16:55 |
Hanna Muller, Iria de Dios Flores, Celeste Joy, Philip Resnik, and Colin Phillips
An environment-based account of negative polarity illusions |
| 16:55-17:20 |
Vishal Sunil Arvindam, Maxime Tulling, and Ailís Cournane
2-year-olds process negation online: Evidence from eye-tracking |
| 17:20-18:05 |
Invited Talk: Richard Breheny
Verifying negative sentences |
| 18:05 – |
Get-together at Gathertown (tinyurl.com/negpolprocessing) |
| 19:00 |
Dinner (Bombay, Friedrichstr. 106c) |
Day 02, October 02 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Warm-UP |
| 10:00-10:45 |
Invited Talk: Mante Nieuwland
Incremental processing of negation: What can be learned from ERPs? |
| 10:45-11:10 |
Johanna Sommer, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Arne Nagels, Walter Bisang, and Yifei He
Polarity effects in negated sentences with and without truth value reversal: Evidence from N400 and theta oscillations |
| 11:10-11:40 |
COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes) |
| 11:40-12:05 |
Ingrid Scharlau, Alexander Krüger, Katharina Rohlfing, and Britta Wrede
Effects of negation on visual processing capacity |
| 12:05-12:30 |
Joanne Ingram, Greg Maciejewski, Jack Taylor, and Ruth Filik
Complement set references vary with implicit expectation in story and brief contexts |
| 12:30-12:55 |
Ludivini Crible
The production and processing of negation in concessive relations |
| 12:55-14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK (65 minutes) |
| 14:00-14:25 |
Vincenzo Moscati
N-words are not slower than existential and universal quantifiers in 5-year-olds. A comparison of processing times using the visual world paradigm and its implications for Early Negative Concord. |
|
14:25-14:50 |
Elena Pagliarini, Marta Andrada Reyes, Maria Teresa Guasti, Stephen Crain, and Anna Gavarró
The acquisition of negative disjunctive sentences in Catalan: an investigation of the role of age and of language development |
| 14:50-15:15 |
Mora Maldonado and Jennifer Culbertson
Nobody doesn’t like negative concord |
| 15:15-15:45 |
COFFEE BREAK (30 minutes) |
| 15:45-16:10 |
Elena Albu, Carolin Dudschig, Tessa Warren, and Barbara Kaup
Does negation influence the choice of sentence continuations? Evidence from a four-choice cloze task |
| 16:10-16:55 |
Invited Talk: Ming Xiang
On the pragmatic licensing of negation |
| 16:55-17:15 |
Closing remarks |
