Vorträge

Projektbezogene Vorträge

2022

Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. The Comprehension of Broad Focus: Probing Roothian Alternatives. Poster given at CogSci2022, July 27 - 30, Toronto, Canada.

Mehlhase, F., Gotzner, N. & Herbst, U. More than just words - The use and influence of discourse particles in the negotiation process. International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) Conference, 10.07.-13.7.2022, Ottawa, Canada.

Mehlhase, F., Gotzner, N. & Herbst, U. More than just words - The use and influence of discourse particles in the negotiation process. Internation conference on group decision and negotiation (GDN), 12.6.-16.6.2022, virtual.

Alexandropoulou, S., Herb, M., Discher, H., Gotzner N. Incremental pragmatic interpretation of gradable adjectives: The role of standards of comparison. Poster/alternate talk given at the SALT32, El Colegio de México, June 8 - 10, Mexico City, Mexico.

Alexandropoulou, S., Herb, M., Discher, H., Gotzner, N. Incremental processing of scalar implicatures of adjectives: The role of lexical semantics. Talk given online at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics (AMGL42), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, May 6-8, 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Alexandropoulou, S. The role of lexical-semantic factors in scalar implicature processing of adjectives. Invited talk at UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, 03.05.2022, Utrecht.

Gotzner, N. Vagueness, valence and pragmatic reasoning: Novel challenges for the Semantics/Pragmatics-Interface. Invited talk, 13.4.2022. Discourse in Philosophy Colloquium, ILLC, Amsterdam.

Alexandropoulou, S., Discher, H., Herb, M., Gotzner, N. The role of lexical- semantic factors in incremental processing of scalar inferences. Poster presented virtually at the 35th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 24 – 26, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Lacina, R., Šimík, R., & Gotzner, N. Focus and word order: The representation of alternatives in Czech. Poster presented virtually at the 35th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 24 – 26, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. Probing alternatives to focused VP-constituents: A test of the Roothian approach. Poster presented virtually at the 35th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 24 – 26, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Alexandropoulou, S. & Gotzner, N. Measurement scales and competition between alternatives. Talk given online at the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (workshop on “Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives”), February 23 - 25, Tübingen, Germany.

Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. Alternatives in Broad-scope Focus: Testing Rooth’s Theory on VP-constituents. Talk given online at the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society, February 23 - 25, Tübingen, Germany.

2021

Alexandropoulou, S & Gotzner, N.Negation, polarity and scale structure: Different inferences of gradable adjectives. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.

Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. Implicatures in (non-) monotonic environments. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Children derive some global implicatures, but almost no local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.

Lacina, R. & Gotzner, N. & Sturt, P. Alternatives in broad-scope focus: Testing Rooth’s theory on VP-constituents, AMlaP, 6.9.-8.9.2021, Paris.

Gotzner, N. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure and granularity in implicature computation, Invited talk at ESSLLI workshop on "Rational choice and/or exhaustification" , 9.8-13.8, Utrecht University.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Children derive some global implicatures, but almost no local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm (poster), XPRAG Italy, 8.-9.7.2021, University of Turin.

Gotzner, N. The acquisition and processing of pragmatic inferences. Invited talk. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, 21.6.2021, Osnabrück University.

Alexandropoulou, S. Ignorance inferences of at least as a numeral modifier vs. as an adjectival modifier: An experimental investigation. Invited talk. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, 15.6.2021, University of Potsdam.

Gotzner, N. The acquisition and processing of pragmatic inferences. Invited talk. Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, 15.6.2021, University of Potsdam.

Alexandropoulou, S & Gotzner, N. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure in implicature computation, Workshop on Scales, degrees and implicature, 26.5.-28.5.2021, Potsdam University.

Lacina, R. & Gotzner, N. The alternative activation theory: A unified account of the processing of focus and implicatures, Workshop on Scales, degrees and implicature, 26.5.-28.5.2021, Potsdam University.

Gotzner, N. & Alexandropoulou, S. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure in implicature computation. Invited talk, 9.8.-13.8.2021. ESSLLI Workshop on Rationality and Exhaustification. Utrecht University.

Gotzner, N. Negation, polarity and adjective meaning. Pragmatics and Cognition Seminar. Invited talk, 3.6.2021, University of Padova.

Alexandropulou, S. & Gotzner, N. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure in implicature computation, 27.4.2021. LACRE Series, Cardiff University.

Alexandropoulou, S.. Scalar diversity and ignorance inferences: An experimental study on 'at least' as a modifier of numerals vs adjectives. Poster presentation at SALT31, Brown University, May 7-9, 2021.

Alexandropoulou, S. 'At least' as a scalar modifier: Scalar diversity and ignorance inferences, CUNY2021, 4.3-6.3.2021, University of Pennsylvania.

Gotzner, N. The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives. Invited talk, Bochum Language Colloquium, 28.1.2021, Ruhr University Bochum.

2020

Gotzner, N. The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives. Invited talk, Semantics Colloquium, 3.12.2020, Goethe University Frankfurt.

Gotzner, N. Adjectival meaning and exhaustivity. Invited talk, QUDs and exhaustivity: experiments, computation, and theory. 25.9.-26.9.2020, University of Graz.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic! Empirical investigations in linguistic meaning (ELM), 16.-18.9.2020, UPenn, Philadelphia.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs (Poster). Empirical investigations in linguistic meaning (ELM), 16.-18.9.2020, UPenn, Philadelphia.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic! Sensus, 26.-27.9.2020, UMass, Amherst.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs. Sensus, 26.-27.9.2020, UMass, Amherst.

Gotzner, N. 12.5.2020, The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives, Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, 26.6.2020, University of Potsdam.

Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. The interpretation of negated adjectives: Dissociating polarity from face-threatening potential. Linglunch Colloquium at Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle. 12.5.2020, Paris.

2021

Alexandropoulou, S & Gotzner, N.Negation, polarity & scale structure: Different inferences of gradable adjectives. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.