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Day 1: 9/16
Day 2: 9/17
Day 3: 9/18

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W 9/16	Title	Authors
10:00-11:30:	Session 1-1 Chair: Jonathan Phillips	Local Host: Andrea Beltrama
10:00-10:30	Memory for cardinality supports a one-set account of conservativity	Tyler Knowlton, Paul Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Halberda and Jeffrey Lidz
10:30-11:00	Generics as default? Comparing the acquisition of universals and generics in Spanish	Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Agustín Vicente, Elena Castroviejo and Marta Ponciano
11:00-11:30	Reciprocal predicates: a prototype model	Imke Kruitwagen, Yoad Winter and James Hampton
11:30-12:00	BREAK & Pop Up Mentoring Meetings	Find information and the sign up link here (Deadline for pop up mentoring sign up: 9/8)
12:00-1:00:	Session 1-2 Chair: Richard Breheny	Local Host: Ariel Mathis
12:00-1:00	Invited talk: OR NOT alternative questions, focus and discourse structure	Maribel Romero
1:00-2:30	Poster Session 1 (Open Poster info in separate tab)	Lightning talk videos can be viewed any time (available by Sep. 12)
2:30-4:00:	Session 1-3 Chair: Elsi Kaiser	Local Host: Andrea Beltrama
2:30-3:00	Epistemic 'must p' is literally a strong statement	Giuseppe Ricciardi, Rachel A. Ryskin and Edward Gibson
3:00-3:30	Finding the force: a novel word learning experiment with modals	Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailís Cournane and Valentine Hacquard
3:30-4:00	Licensing (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions: Experimental studies	Morgan Moyer and Kristen Syrett
4:00-4:30	BREAK
4:30-6:00:	Session 1-4 Chair: Suzi Lima	Local Host: Andrea Beltrama
4:30-5:00	Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity	Jeffrey Geiger and Ming Xiang
5:00-5:30	On the Acquisition of either and too	Naomi Francis, Leo Rosenstein, Martin Hackl and Shuli Jones
5:30-6:00	Priming Scalar Inferences	Brandon Waldon and Judith Degen

Th 9/17	Title	Authors
10:00-11:30	Session 2-1 Chair: Francesca Foppolo	Local Host: Faruk Akkus
10:00-10:30	Processing implicatures: a comparison between direct and indirect SIs	Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasu Sudo, Bob van Tiel and Richard Breheny
10:30-11:00	Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic!	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner
11:00-11:30	Unable or unwilling? Being under-informative is interpreted differently for native and non-native speakers	Sarah Fairchild, Ariel Mathis and Anna Papafragou
11:30-12:00	BREAK & Pop Up Mentoring Meetings	Find information and the sign up link here (Deadline for pop up mentoring sign up: 9/8)
12:00-1:00	Session 2-2 Chair: Nicole Gotzner	Local Host: Faruk Akkus
12:00-1:00	Invited Talk: Questions and Alternatives in the Assessment of Children's Logical Competence	David Barner
1:00-2:30	Poster Session 2 (Open Poster info in separate tab)	Lightning talk videos can be viewed any time (available by Sep. 12)
2:30-4:00	Session 2-3 Chair: Ming Xiang	Local Host: Faruk Akkus
2:30-3:00	Listeners use descriptive contrast to disambiguate novel referents and make inferences about novel categories	Claire Bergey and Daniel Yurovsky
3:00-3:30	What's the smallest part of spinach? A new experimental approach to the count/mass distinction	Sea Hee Choi and Tania Ionin
3:30-4:00	Discourse behavior of possessives reflects the importance of interpersonal relationships	Jesse Storbeck and Elsi Kaiser
4:00-4:30	BREAK
4:30-5:30	Session 2-4 Chair: Alexander Williams	Local Host: Ariel Mathis
4:30-5:30	Invited Talk: Defining atoms: a view from Brazilian languages [Talk Video linked on Campuswire program]	Suzi Lima

F 9/18	Title	Authors
10:00-11:30	Session 3-1 Chair: Tania Ionin	Local Host: Martin Ip
10:00-10:30	Incremental processing of telicity in Italian children	Jasmijn Bosch, Mathilde Chailleux and Francesca Foppolo
10:30-11:00	Meaning change from an experimental perspective: two self-paced reading studies on the Spanish Imperfective domain	Martín Fuchs and Maria Pinango
11:00-11:30	Causal selection: The linguistic take	Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Noa Bassel, Nora Boneh and York Hagmayer
11:30-12:00	BREAK & Pop Up Mentoring Meetings	Find information and the sign up link here (Deadline for pop up mentoring sign up: 9/8)
12:00-1:00	Session 3-2 Chair: Ailis Cournane	Local Host: Ariel Mathis
12:00-1:00	Invited talk: A bridge from the semantics to the psychology of modality	Jonathan Phillips
1:00-2:30	Poster Session 3 (Open Poster info in separate tab)	Lightning talk videos can be viewed any time (available by Sep. 12)
2:30-4:00	Session 3-3 Chair: Kristen Syrett	Local Host: Martin Ip
2:30-3:00	Getting Support for ‘Support’: The Privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in Early Spatial Language Acquisition	Laura Lakusta, Julia Wefferling, Yasmin Hussein and Barbara Landau
3:00-3:30	Seeing vs. Seeing That: Children’s Understanding of Direct Perception and Inference Reports	Emory Davis and Barbara Landau
3:30-4:00	Effects of Bilingualism on Infants’ Sensitivity to Ground Information	Roberta Golinkoff, Leher Singh, Tilbe Goksun and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
4:00-4:30	BREAK
4:30-5:30	Session 3-4 Chair: Andrea Beltrama	Local Host: Martin Ip
4:30-5:00	The denotation of tall: A categorization-based approach	Seungjin Hong, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Gail Mauner
5:00-5:30	Superlative-modified numerals and negation: A negotiable cost	Teodora Mihoc and Kathryn Davidson

#	Title	Authors
24	Modeling Lexical-Semantic Networks of School Age Children through a Repeated Word Association Task	Patricia Brooks, Josita Maouene, Jeremy Sawyer, Li Sheng, Alexandria Garzone and Mounir Maouene
73	Expressing the unseen: Learning to encode inference as an information source	Dionysia Saratsli and Anna Papafragou
110	Who shares that opinion? Testing effects of adjective valence and group diversity with predicates of personal taste	Elsi Kaiser
29	Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs.	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner
45	Measuring the effect of cancelling the Maxim of Quantity	Cathy Agyemang and Raj Singh
58	Exclusive children in Japanese: evidence from disjunction in subject position	Mana Asano, Yoichi Miyamoto, Andreea Nicolae, Shuki Otani, and Kazuko Yatsushiro
55	Number, Executive Function, Lexicon and Collective-Distributive Interpretations	John Grinstead, Melissa Nieves-Rivera and Ramón Padilla-Reyes
23	What the inference task tells us about numbers, and what numbers can tell us about the inference task	Richard Breheny, Blanche Gonzales De Linares, Erying Qin and Chao Sun
56	Is language logical, a study of disjunction scope paramaters	Cecile Larralde and Kriszta Szendroi
72	Spatial representation of linguistic quantifiers: small goes left, big goes right	Martina Abbondanza, Francesca Foppolo, Luca Rinaldi and Marco Marelli
98	Intention and Attention in Image-Text Presentations: A Coherence Approach	Ilana Torres, Kathryn Slusarczyk, Malihe Alikhani and Matthew Stone
34	The Common Ground is not enough: Why Focus-sensitivity matters for Presupposition triggers	Alexander Göbel
66	Counterfactuals and undefinedness: homogeneity vs. supervaluations	Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli and Paolo Santorio
107	The interpretations of scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and implicated presupposition by Thai children with autism	Nattanun Chanchaochai
19	Isolating the pragmatic contribution from a single word: The French answer Si in response to a negative question	Ira Noveck, Nicolas Petit, Ye Tian and Giuseppina Turco
79	Presupposition and Motor Response: The Case of Factive Verbs	Jacques Jayez and Robert Reinecke
54	De re interpretation in belief reports--An experimental investigation	Yuhan Zhang and Kathryn Davidson
71	New data on the nature of competition between indefinites and definites	Nadine Bade and Florian Schwarz
102	Uniqueness and familiarity in the comprehension and production of definite descriptions	Sadhwi Srinivas, Kyle Rawlins and Daphna Heller

#	Title	Authors
6	The role of executive function and theory of mind in pragmatic computations	Sarah Fairchild and Anna Papafragou
113	Order, relevance and script knowledge: Revising temporal structures	Maria Spychalska
75	Discourse versus syntax: The interpretation of ungrammatical bare nouns in L2 English	Michael C. Stern, Ming Chen, Veneeta Dayal and Gita Martohardjono
10	Overspecification of number in reference production	Natalia Zevakhina, Elena Pasal'Skaya and Alina Schipkova
20	Are Bilingual Logical Representations Shared?: Priming scopally ambiguous sentences in English, Estonian, and Dutch	Mieke Slim and Napoleon Katsos
64	Integrating Numerical Knowledge in the Exact Interpretation Numeral Quantifiers	Melissa Nieves Rivera and John Grinstead
21	Children’ sensitivity to some – but not all – Gricean Maxims	Francesca Panzeri and Francesca Foppolo
17	The use of alternatives in incremental processing	Chao Sun, Katharina Spalek and Richard Breheny
74	Tattoos as a window onto cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature	Danielle Dionne and Elizabeth Coppock
112	Probability and processing speed of scalar inferences is context-dependent	Leyla Kursat and Judith Degen
111	Children's interpretation of rising vs. falling intonation in declarative clauses	Daniel Goodhue, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz
89	Hat Contour in Dutch: Form and Function	Gouming Martens, Francisco Torreira and Michael Wagner
78	Speaking ironically: Does tone of voice influence children's understanding?	Ingrid Lossius Falkum and Franziska Köder
88	Irony comprehension in multilingual and bi-dialectal speakers	Kyriakos Antoniou and George Spanoudis
99	Cultural differences in the interpretation of verb phrases	Amritpal Singh, Mingtong Li, Shikun Su and Daniel Casasanto
25	(Not) Acquiring Meaning in a Second Language: Are Input Deficits Key?	Barbara Malt, Xingjian Yang, Jess Joseph and Ashley Veliz
42	'The moustache’ returns: the acquisition of metonymy in adult learners of English as an additional language (EAL).	Josephine Bowerman, Ingrid Falkum and Nausicaa Pouscoulous
12	‘How’s the wife?’: Pragmatic reasoning and social indexicality in spousal reference	Matthew Hunt and Eric Acton
77	Bare Noun (Pseudo-Incorporated) Antecedents and Anaphora: Preference for Singular Interpretation	Fereshteh Modarresi and Manfred Krifka

#	Title	Authors
13	“Flippin’ ‘eck!”: Expressivity and social meaning in perception	Matthew Hunt
57	Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution	Andrea Beltrama and Florian Schwarz
31	Acquisition of doubly negated sentences in German	Andreea Nicolae and Kazuko Yatsushiro
60	Executive Function, General Lexical Development and the Quantity Implicature in Child Spanish	John Grinstead, Ramón Padilla-Reyes and Blanca Flores-Avalos
86	Simulating semantic change: a methodological note	Remus Gergel, Martin Kopf-Giammanco and Maike Puhl
87	Children's metonymy comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture selection	Ingrid Lossius Falkum and Franziska Köder
105	He and she cause more trouble than they does: An ERP investigation of singular they	Olivia Leventhal, Sadie Camilliere, Peiyao Chen and Daniel Grodner
49	‘You do it Like This!’: Impersonal Pronouns, Habituality, and Default Reasoning	James Ravi Kirkpatrick, Joshua Knobe and Alexander Dieball
8	'Being tall compared to' compared to 'being tall' and 'being taller'	Alexis Wellwood, Deniz Rudin and Jaime Castillo-Gamboa
65	Examining Emotion Concepts Through a Property Generation Paradigm	Alexandra Kelly and Evangelia G. Chrysikou
68	Offline effects but no online differences in phrasal meaning composition including intersective vs. subsective adjectives	Isabella Fritz and Giosuè Baggio
41	Inferring comparison classes from syntactic cues and world knowledge	Michael Henry Tessler, Polina Tsvilodub and Roger Levy
109	Plausibility denied: Semantic activation in the cerebral hemispheres during idiom processing	Doug Merchant
80	Definitely Islands?	Anissa Neal and Brian Dillon
97	Coming in, or going out? Measuring the effect of discourse factors on perspective prominence	Carolyn Anderson
108	Clause types and speech acts in speech to children	Anissa Zaitsu, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz
69	Verbs describing routines facilitate object omission	Lelia Glass
4	Agents’ goals affect placement of event endpoints	Ariel Mathis and Anna Papafragou
46	Real-world event knowledge modulates the use of tense cues in event comprehension	Sarah Hye-Yeon Lee and Elsi Kaiser
106	Evidence for argument structure in the form of pantomime	Chuck Bradley
83	Learning change-of-state verbs: Sentence type does not affect lexicalization biase	Annelot Mills, Lotte Odijk and Angeliek van Hout

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