Selected Presentations

Invited Talks

2026

  • Beyond activated alternatives – what disjunction can tell us about semantic priming effects, Semantics/Pragmatics Colloquium, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin

2025

  • Shared mechanisms between local and global implicatures – evidence from priming, MIT Linguistics Colloquium, MIT

2024

  • Finding the gap or filling it? – Experimental measures of truth-value gaps, Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language Semantics, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin
  • Shared mechanisms between local and global implicatures – evidence from priming, Semantics Colloquium, University of Frankfurt
  • Linguistic illusions revisited: The role of maximal informativity, with Vera Hohaus and Ryan Walter Smith, Semantics Colloquium, University of Frankfurt

2023

  • Word learning tasks as a window into the triggering problem for presuppositions, with Philippe Schlenker and Emmanuel Chemla, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Stuttgart
  • Word learning tasks as a window into the triggering problem for presuppositions, with Philippe Schlenker and Emmanuel Chemla, Semantics Circle, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin

2020

  • Alternatives and attention in language and reasoning – the case of modals, joint work with L. Picat, W. Chung and S. Mascarenhas, Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Potsdam
  • New data on presuppositional competition – a new hope for Maximize Presupposition?, joint work with F. Schwarz, Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Presuppositions, workshop of Project B2, CRC 833, University of Tübingen

2019

  • (In-)definites, (anti-)uniqueness, and uniqueness expectations, with F. Schwarz, Semantics Circle, University of Lyon

2018

  • Japanese wa and ga as scope markers of EXH, Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Nantes
  • Exhaustivity in questions – evidence from German so and alles, Semantics Workshop, University of Vienna

2017

  • Maximizing the presuppositions of features, Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Nantes/CNRS
  • The interpretation of number in which-questions, Common Ground, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • Processing antipresuppositions, Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions, University of Genoa

2016

  • Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Potsdam

2015

  • Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Graz
  • Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Göttingen

Refereed Conference Presentations

2024

  • Oral presentation, “New data on the triggering problem for presuppositions”, SALT 34, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2020

  • Poster presentation, “New data on the competition between definites and indefinites”, with F. Schwarz, ELM 2020, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • Poster presentation, “New data on the nature of the competition between definites and indefinites”, with F. Schwarz, CUNY 2020, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2019

  • Oral presentation, “(In-)definites, (anti-)uniqueness, and uniqueness expectations”, XPrag 2019, Edinburgh
  • Oral presentation, “(In-)definites, (anti-)uniqueness, and uniqueness expectations”, with F. Schwarz, CogSci 2019, University of Montreal

2018

  • Poster presentation, “Japanese wa and ga as scope markers of EXH”, WAFL 14, MIT
  • “An experimental investigation of antipresuppositions”, with Florian Schwarz, PLC 42, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2017

  • Poster presentation, “Processing antipresuppositions”, XPrag 2017, Cologne
  • Poster presentation, “Evidence for global pronoun resolution”, with Saskia Brockmann, XPrag 2017, Cologne
  • Oral presentation, “Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)”, Secondary Information & Linguistic Encoding, workshop at the DGfS meeting, Saarbrücken
  • Poster presentation, “Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatics: Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures in Ga (Kwa)”, GLOW in Asia, University of Singapore

2016

  • Poster presentation, “Additives as a window into local exhaustivity implicatures”, Sinn und Bedeutung 21, University of Edinburgh

2015

  • Oral presentation, “Experimental evidence for the difference between soft and hard triggers”, with Sonja Tiemann, XPrag, University of Chicago
  • Poster presentation, “Domain restriction presupposed”, XPrag, University of Chicago
  • Oral presentation, “Obligatory triggers under negation”, with Sonja Tiemann, Sinn und Bedeutung 20, University of Tübingen

2014

  • Oral presentation, “Pronouns without referents? A linguistic and literary perspective”, with Saskia Ottschofski, Literary Semantics: Past, Present, Future?, University of Kent

2013

  • Poster presentation, “Exhaustive interpretation and the presupposition of ‘too’”, Sinn und Bedeutung 18, University of the Basque Country
  • Oral presentation, “Obligatory presuppositions and exhaustive interpretation”, International Conference of Linguistics, Geneva