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| Day | Session | Delivery | Time | # | Title | Authors | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 - May 18 | Panel | virtual | 09:00-9:25 | 1 | Can neural networks identify speaker commitment? | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe | Computational |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Panel | virtual | 09:25-9:50 | 2 | Learning Grounded Word Representations | Ellie Pavlick | Computational |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Panel | virtual | 09:50-10:15 | 3 | Montague Grammar Induction | Aaron White | Computational |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Panel | virtual | 10:15-10:30 | 4 | Panel Discussion - Computational Perspectives on Meaning | de Marneffe, Pavlick, White | Computational |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.1 | in person | 09:00-10:00 | 5 | Geometry and function in spatial terms: Core and more | Barbara Landau | 0 |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.1 | in person | 09:00-10:00 | 6 | Context, Convention and Coordination: Insights from Gradable Adjectives | Chris Kennedy | 0 |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.4 | in person | 16:30-17:30 | 7 | Beyond the sentence: Discourse structural effects on reference resolution | Petra Schumacher | 0 |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 9 | Bayesian Modeling of Quantifier Cardinal Reference Variability: The Case of English Few, Several, and Many | Skyler Reese, Masoud Jasbi and Emily Morgan | semantics Bayesian hierarchical modeling probabilistic approaches quantifier reference vagueness English |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.1 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 12 | Ignorance and Exclusivity in Semi-Cooperative Contexts | Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo and Richard Breheny | disjunction ignorance exclusivity scalar implicatures semi-cooperative contexts |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.4 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 14 | Amusing or aggressive? A cross-cultural study in sarcasm interpretation and use | Ning Zhu and Ruth Filik | Sarcasm interpretation Sarcasm use Cultural difference Theory of mind |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.1 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 20 | You must worry! The interpretation of "mustn't" varies with context and verb complement. | Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz and Roxana-Mihaela Pǎtrunjel | modality negation scope pragmatic weakening American English |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 22 | Modals in natural language optimize the simplicity/informativeness trade-off | Nathaniel Imel and Shane Steinert-Threlkeld | Efficient Communication Modality Cross-linguistic semantics Universals |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 23 | Visual boundaries in sign motion: processing with and without lip reading cues | Julia Krebs, Evie Malaia, Ronnie Wilbur and Dietmar Roehm | Sign Language Austrian Sign Language Telicity Event segmentation lip reading EEG |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.4 | in person | 17:00-17:30 | 24 | Source-Goal asymmetry in motion events: Sources are robustly encoded in memory but overlooked at test | Yiran Chen, Anna Papafragou and John Trueswell | Source-Goal asymmetry Event cognition Memory |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.3 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 26 | Conceptual Foundations of Telicity: Viewers' Spontaneous Representation of Boundedness in Event Perception | Yue Ji and Anna Papafragou | telicity aspect event perception boundedness |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.2 | in person | 11:00-11:30 | 28 | A theoretically motivated quantitative model for the interaction between vagueness and implicatures | Alexandre Cremers | Vagueness Implicatures Probabilistic pragmatic models Gradable adjectives |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.3 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 29 | Far from independent: Matrix-driven temporal shift interpretations of English and German past-under-past relative clauses | Elena Marx and Eva Wittenberg | event structure tense temporal shift relative clause syntax semantics language and cognition |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.2 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 30 | Investigating discourse referent salience patterns of negative quantifying expressions | Eva Klingvall and Fredrik Heinat | sentence completion task discourse topic information structure complement set reference set |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Main-1.1 | virtual | 12:15-12:45 | 31 | The investigation of quantity implicatures during typical development: a systematic review | Anna Teresa Porrini and Luca Surian | Quantity implicatures Comprehension Pragmatic Development Language Acquisition Systematic review |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.3 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 34 | When Transformer models are more compositional than humans: The case of the depth charge illusion | Dario Paape | semantic illusion language model compositionality incrementality |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.1 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 35 | Five degrees of (non)sense: Investigating the connection between bullshit receptivity and susceptibility to semantic illusions | Dario Paape | linguistic illusions bullshit pattern recognition |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 36 | Effects of entity relatedness and definiteness on bridging inferences | Mandy Simons and Hannah Rohde | bridging coreference definiteness |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.4 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 37 | The role of context and working memory in the MIE - A window on metaphor processes | Shaokang Jin and Richard Breheny | Metaphor Context Working Memory |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.4 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 38 | Pragmatic and knowledge lenience towards foreigners | Anna Lorenzoni, Elena Pagliarini, Francesco Vespignani and Eduardo Navarrete Sanchez | Foreign-accented speech pragmatics speaker identity scalar implicature social categorization |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.3 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 40 | Getting to the truth is not easy as putting it in context - A dual task study of negation processing | Shenshen Wang, Chao Sun and Richard Breheny | Negation Context Language comprehension |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.3 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 41 | Multiple pressures to explain the 'not all' gap | Jeremy Kuhn and Lena Pasalskaya | 'Not all' Quantification Modal verbs Informativity Typology |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.2 | in person | 12:00-12:30 | 44 | Aspect Processing Across Languages: Visual World Eye Tracking Evidence for Semantic Distinctions | Serge Minor, Gillian Ramchand, Natalia Mitrofanova, Gustavo Guajardo and Myrte Vos | Perfective Imperfective Russian Spanish English Visual World Aspect Incremental Processing |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 48 | Commitment vs. discourse orientation : experimental and computational perspectives | Grégoire Winterstein, Ghyslain Cantin-Savoie, Samuel Laperle, Josiane Van Dorpe and Nora Villeneuve | Commitment Discourse orientation Entailment Argumentation Language models French |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 50 | Social identity and charity: when less precise speakers are held to stricter standards | Andrea Beltrama and Florian Schwarz | Social meaning Imprecision Truth-Value-Judgment-Task Charity Numerals |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.1 | in person | 10:00-10:30 | 54 | Does causality matter? Impressions of agency influence judgments of both causal and non-casual sentences | Sehrang Joo, Sami Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank Keil and Joshua Knobe | agency causation syntax |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.1 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 55 | Context matters: Changes in the affective representation of a word in younger and older adults | Li-Chuan Ku and Vicky T. Lai | Emotional meaning Aging ERP |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.2 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 56 | 4-year-olds' interpretation of additive too in question comprehension | Hisao Kurokami, Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz | L1 acquisition focus particles presupposition |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 59 | Corpus evidence for the role of world knowledge in ambiguity reduction: Using high positive expectations to inform quantifier scope | Noa Attali, Lisa Pearl and Gregory Scontras | scope ambiguity interpretation world knowledge corpus analysis high positive expectations |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 60 | Incremental theme verbs do not encode measures of change: experimental evidence from German-speaking adults | Merle Weicker, Lea Heßler-Reusch and Petra Schulz | telicity incremental theme verbs upper closed scale adjectives quantized NP resultatives |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 61 | Testing the Influence of QUDs on Conditional Perfection | Britta Grusdt, Michael Franke and Mingya Liu | Conditional Perfection Question Under Discussion Pragmatics |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.3 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 62 | Addressing unexpected questions in discourse | Swantje Tönnis and Judith Tonhauser | QUD Discourse expectations German clefts |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.2 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 64 | Inferring semantic representations underlying the meanings of numerals | Milica Denić and Jakub Szymanik | numerals simplicity/informativeness trade-off semantic representations |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 65 | The role of grammatical cues in tracking object location in transfer-of-possession events: A visual-world eye-tracking study | Sarah Hye-Yeon Lee and Elsi Kaiser | event comprehension transfer-of-possession change of location grammatical aspect verb meaning visual world eye-tracking |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.2 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 66 | A corpus-based study of (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions | Morgan Moyer and Judith Degen | pragmatics semantics wh-questions mention-some non-exhaustivity corpus |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.1 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 68 | What is the processing cost of (im)precision? | Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos, Ira Noveck and Ingrid Lossius Falkum | imprecision absolute adjectives processing cost lexical pragmatics |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 69 | Crosslinguistic differences on the Present Perfect Puzzle: an experimental approach | Martín Fuchs and Martijn van der Klis | Perfect Crosslinguistic variation Tense/Aspect Hodiernality Deixis |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.3 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 70 | Predicting the f***ing word: Studying the benefits of negative expressive adjectives during sentence comprehension | Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos and Filippo Domaneschi | expressive adjectives eye-tracking visual world paradigm prediction |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 72 | Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming | Eszter Ronai and Ming Xiang | experimental pragmatics scalar implicature scalar alternatives semantic priming |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.4 | in person | 17:30-18:00 | 75 | Modelling the Role of Polysemy in Verb Categorization | Elizabeth Soper and Jean-Pierre Koenig | polysemy categorization word embeddings computational modelling cluster analysis |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 76 | Machine classification of modal meanings: An empirical study and some consequences | Aynat Rubinstein, Valentina Pyatkin, Shoval Sadde, Reut Tsarfaty and Paul Portner | Modality Epistemic Modality Natural Language Processing Deep Learning |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Main-1.2 | virtual | 16:00-16:30 | 77 | Explanations over Consequences: Explaining Implicit Causality and Consequentiality Biases | Torgrim Solstad and Oliver Bott | discourse coherence coreference referential bias event semantics verb semantics implicit causality implicit consequentiality |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 78 | Non-Doxastic Attitude Ascriptions and Semantic Meaning | Wojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś and Bartosz Maćkiewicz | attitude ascriptions conjunction elimination non-doxastic attitudes pragmatics semantics truth-value judgements |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.4 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 79 | Can slurs be used without being mentioned? Evidence from an inference judgement task | Maria Esipova | slurs ellipsis performativity inference judgement task |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.2 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 81 | To honor or not to honor: Korean honorifics with mixed status conjoined subjects | Christopher Davis and Sunwoo Jeong | Korean honorifics conjunction constraint based pragmatics |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 82 | Speaker reliability: calibrating confidence with evidence | Mélinda Pozzi and Diana Mazzarella | confidence commitment credibility epistemic trust |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.3 | in person | 15:30-16:00 | 83 | Less than a Sentence is not Enough - An Eyetracking Study on the Incremental Interpretation of Negative Expressions | Fabian Schlotterbeck and Oliver Bott | Quantifiers Negation Monotonicity Incrementality |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 84 | Group membership impact on pragmatic inferences | Inbal Kuperwasser, Yoav Bar-Anan and Einat Shetreet | scalar implicature group membership experimental pragmatics sociolinguistics |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.3 | in person | 15:00-15:30 | 85 | Negative islands do not block active gap filling | Zirui Huang and E. Matthew Husband | filled-gap effect island constraints negative islands self-paced reading language processing |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 88 | The rise and particularly fall of presuppositions: Evidence from duality in universals | Remus Gergel, Maike Puhl, Simon Dampfhofer and Edgar Onea | diachronic change semantic language processing reinterpretation times |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 90 | The information structure of word order alternations | Giuseppe Ricciardi and Edward Gibson | word order information structure canonicality discourse old vs new information dative locative sentence acceptability |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.3 | in person | 16:00-16:30 | 92 | Referential domains, priming and the effect of invisible objects | Si On Yoon, Breanna Pratley and Daphna Heller | referential domain priming referring expressions |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.4 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 95 | Irony Regulates Negative Emotion - in Speakers and Listeners | Valeria Pfeifer and Vicky Tzuyin Lai | irony emotion erp emotion regulation pragmatics |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.3 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 96 | Transparency in the Processing of Temporal Ambiguity: The Case of Embedded Tense | Giuliano Armenante, Vera Hohaus and Britta Stolterfoht | sequence of tense ambiguity incremental processing |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.2 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 99 | Processing conditionals in context: Reading time and electrophysiological responses | Mathias Barthel, Rosario Tomasello and Mingya Liu | Conditionals Reading Times EEG |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 100 | Not that "fake" - Adults interpret the present counterfactual's "fake" past tense as real | Maxime Tulling, Johanna Bunn and Ailis Cournane | counterfactuality semantics language change |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.1 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 101 | Accessing children's pragmatic competence through intonational production | Line Sjøtun Helganger and Ingrid Lossius Falkum | Pragmatic development First language acquisition Norwegian intonation Polarity focus |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 102 | Acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference: Semantic alternatives modulate subordinate meanings | June Choe and Anna Papafragou | word learning informativity basic-level bias |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.2 | in person | 11:30-12:00 | 104 | On a concessive reading of the rise-fall-rise contour: contextual and semantic factors | Alexander Göbel and Michael Wagner | intonation Focus-particles alternatives |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 105 | Exploring the pragmatic import of non-truth-conditional discourse connectives | Cecile Larralde, Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Ira Noveck | Discourse connectives Conventional implicatures Reaction time Pragmatic information |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.1 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 106 | A path to ignorance: The default computation of Scalar Implicatures | Alan Bale, David Barner, Maho Takahashi, Hisako Naguchi and Marguerite Rolland | Pragmatics Scalar Implicature Ignorance Implicature Default Strategies Working Memory Contextual Construals Encapsulation Strengthened Meaning Gricean reasoning Grammatical Strengthening |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.3 | virtual | 15:00-15:30 | 107 | The development of irony comprehension and epistemic vigilance | Franziska Köder, Olivier Mascaro and Ingrid Lossius Falkum | pragmatic development irony comprehension epistemic vigilance |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.2 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 108 | Generalizating NPIs to positive uses in an Artificial Language | Jeremy Kuhn and Mora Maldonado | negation polarity artificial language learning acquisition NPI |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Main-1.1 | virtual | 11:15-11:45 | 109 | The role of relevance, competence and priors for scalar implicatures | Polina Tsvilodub, Bob van Tiel and Michael Franke | scalar implicature relevance competence prior beliefs |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 110 | Comparing Global and Local Accommodation: Rating and Response Time Data | Alexander Göbel and Florian Schwarz | presupposition accommodation projection |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Main-1.2 | virtual | 17:00-17:30 | 111 | Beyond Surprising: English Event Structure in the Maze | Lisa Levinson | event structure lexical semantics argument structure verb alternations surprisal maze task |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Main-1.2 | virtual | 16:30-17:00 | 112 | Learnability and constraints on the semantics of clause-embedding predicates | Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson and Wataru Uegaki | clause-embedding predicates universals veridicality artificial language learning |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.2 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 113 | Exhaustivity in preschoolers' clefted focus interpretation: Identification in context | Balazs Suranyi and Lilla Pinter | focus clefts exhaustivity first language acquisition context |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.3 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 115 | Effects of referent lifetime knowledge on processing of verb morphology | Daniela Palleschi, Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos and Pia Knoeferle | self-paced reading verb morphology world knowledge context effects |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.2 | in person | 12:00:12:30 | 120 | Investigating a shared mechanism in the priming of manner and quantity implicature. | Joe Cowan and Napoleon Katsos | structural priming manner implicature quantity implicature scalar implicature manner |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.2 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 121 | Social identity modulates inferences about speaker commitment to projective content | Taylor Mahler | projection presupposition social meaning |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 123 | On the interpretation of German 'einige': The effect of tense and cardinality | Maya Cortez Espinoza and Lea Fricke | scalar implicatures tense German 'einige' QUD |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.1 | in person | 10:00-10:30 | 124 | 2-year-olds derive mutual exclusivity inferences from contrastive focus | Gabor Brody, Roman Feiman and Athulya Aravind | mutual exclusivity focus information structure givenness contrast word learning |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.3 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 125 | The enduring effects of default focus in let alone ellipsis: Evidence from pupillometry | Jesse Harris | ellipsis contrastive accent auditory sentence processing pupillometry |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 126 | Effects of instruction on semantic and pragmatic judgment tasks | Ziling Zhu and Dorothy Ahn | sentence judgment tasks semantics pragmatics instruction type psycholinguistic methodology |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 127 | Are they touching? Contact and pronoun choice in English prepositional phrases | Shannon Bryant | binding reflexivity spatial language event conceptualization |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.2 | in person | 11:00-11:30 | 128 | Lexical Aspect Maps Onto Event Apprehension | Ugurcan Vurgun, Yue Ji and Anna Papafragou | telicity boundedness event cognition lexical aspect events break detection cognition |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.1 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 129 | To parse or not to parse: symmetric filtering in negated conjunctions | Alexandros Kalomoiros and Florian Schwarz | Presupposition Projection (A)-symmetries Conjunction Parsing |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 130 | Universal quantification without language? Ten-month-old infants represent the universality of visually presented properties. | Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti, Tyler Knowlton, Jeffrey Lidz and Justin Halberda | Precursors of Logic Universal Quantification Infant Cognition Language Vision Interface |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 133 | Logical connectives: An extendable experimental paradigm | Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez and Kathryn Davidson | negation disjunction conjunction implicatures logic |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 138 | Nonboolean Conditionals | Paolo Santorio and Alexis Wellwood | Conditionals Boolean connectives Trivalence Probability Likelihood estimation |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.1 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 139 | Affect encoding in word embeddings | Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang and Xiajie Zhang | Word embedding Lexical semantics Sentiment analysis Neural network Affect theory Language model Computational psycholinguistics |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Main-1.1 | virtual | 11:45-12:15 | 140 | Accounting for free choice: Revisiting the challenge for the implicature approach | Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill and Jacopo Romoli | free choice implicature homogeneity disjunction |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 142 | A psycho-semantic explanation of "each" and "every" quantifier use | Tyler Knowlton, John Trueswell and Anna Papafragou | Quantification Universal Quantifiers Psychosemantics Domain of Quantification |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Main-2.3 | in person | 15:30-16:00 | 145 | Proportions vs. cardinalities: Comparative ambiguities and the COVID pandemic | Elsi Kaiser | proportional comparatives cardinal comparatives scale dimensions degree semantics superlatives ambiguity |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.4 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 146 | Generating Discourse Connectives with Pre-trainedLanguage Models: Do Discourse Relations Help? | Symon Stevens-Guille, Aleksandre Maskharashvili and Michael White | NLG Coherence Discourse Connectives |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.1 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 147 | Real-time processing of indexical and generic expressions: Insights from, and implications for, COVID-related public health messages | Elsi Kaiser and Jesse Storbeck | pronouns indexical pronouns generic reference self-paced reading processing load health messages COVID pandemic |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 148 | Task effects on the processing of predicate ambiguity: Distributivity in the Maze | John Duff, Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling | incremental comprehension self-paced reading Maze distributivity task effects ambiguity |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Parallel-3.3 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 149 | Reading times show effects of contextual complexity and uncertainty in comprehension of German universal quantifiers | Fabian Schlotterbeck and Petra Augurzky | Quantifiers Restriction Self-paced reading Verification |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.2 | in person | 13:30-14:30 | 150 | Trouble finding the words: Lexical differences affect how English and Chinese speakers communicate categories | Lilia Rissman, Qiawen Liu and Gary Lupyan | Communication Concepts & categories Superordinates Chinese |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.B.2 | virtual | 14:45-15:45 | 151 | Can 'hard words' become easy? Mapping evidential meanings onto different forms | Dionysia Saratsli and Anna Papafragou | language acquisition syntax conceptual development pragmatics |
| Day 2 - May 19 | Parallel-2.2 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 153 | The color/size asymmetry in redundant modification replicates cross-linguistically | Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen, Leyla Kursat, J. Adolfo Hermosillo, Anthony Velasquez and Rabia Ergin | reference interactive studies overmodification spanish signed languages |
| Day 1 - May 18 | Parallel-1.A.1 | virtual | 13:30-14:30 | 154 | Sensitivity to speaker knowledge in online tests of scalar implicature | Maho Takahashi, David Barner, Aaron Cousins and Alan Bale | Pragmatics Scalar Implicature Ignorance Implicature Default Strategies Working Memory Contextual Construals Encapsulation Strengthened Meaning Gricean reasoning Grammatical Strengthening |
| Day 3 - May 20 | Main-3.2 | in person | 11:30-12:00 | 155 | Perfective accomplishments don't always denote event culmination, even in Russian: Evidence from psycholinguistics | Natasha Kasher and Aviya Hacohen | Perfectivity Aspect Non-culmination Russian Event semantics Acceptability judgments |