Papers

2024

Probabilistic dynamic semantics
With Aaron Steven White. Available on Lingbuzz.

2024

Modeling the prompt in inference judgment tasks
With Aaron Steven White. To appear in the proceedings of ELM 3. Available on Lingbuzz.

2024

Factivity, presupposition projection, and the role of discrete knowledge in gradience inference judgments
With Aaron Steven White. Under review. Available on Lingbuzz.

2023

Probabilistic compositional semantics, purely
With Jean-Philippe Bernardy. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2021. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36190-617. Also available on Lingbuzz.

2022

An alternative semantics for presupposition
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022. Available on Lingbuzz.

2022

Presupposition projection as a scope phenomenon
Semantics & Pragmatics 15(15). doi:10.3765/sp.15.15. (Update of manuscript ‘Satisfaction without provisos’, available on LingBuzz.)

2022

Algebraic effects for extensible dynamic semantics
With Jean-Philippe Bernardy. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. Preprint on the Semantics Archive.

2022

Rational Speech Act models are utterance-independent updates of world priors
Second author, with Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Christine Howes. Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Available here.

2021

From compositional semantics to Bayesian pragmatics via logical inference
With Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis. Proceedings of NALOMA II. Available here.

2019

Structural priming in production through ‘silence’: An investigation of verb phrase ellipsis and null complement anaphora
Second author, with Ming Xiang and Jason Merchant. Glossa 4(1). doi:10.5334/gjgl.726.

2017

German relative clauses and the severed index hypothesis
Second author, with Emily Hanink. Proceedings of WCCFL 34.

2016

Article selection and anaphora in the German relative clause
With Emily Hanink. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26.

2016

Semantic and pragmatic processes in the comprehension of negation: An event related potential study of negative polarity sensitivity
Second author, with Ming Xiang and Anastasia Giannakidou. Journal of Neurolinguistics 38.

2015

Singular count pseudo-partitives
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19.

2013

Dependency-dependent interference: NPI interference, agreement attraction, and global pragmatic inferences
Second author, with Ming Xiang and Anastasia Giannakidou. Frontiers in Psychology 4. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00708.

2013

The lexical semantics of much: Conversion from intervals to degrees
Proceedings of NELS 44.

2011

Effects of working memory capacity and “autistic” traits on phonotactic effects in speech perception
Second author, with Alan Yu, Martina Martinović, and Morgan Sonderegger. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII.

2011

Effects of Speaker Evaluation on Phonetic Convergence
Second author, with Carissa Abrego-Collier, Morgan Sonderegger, and Alan Yu. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences XVII.