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From: Richard Breheny (richardb@ling.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 17:56:10 GMT

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    The programme for the Experimental Pragmatics conference taking place at the
    University of Cambridge, 14-16 April is posted below.

    We welcome participation. Conference information and registration forms can
    be found on our website:

    http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/experprag.html

    Richard Breheny
    Department of Linguistics
    University College London
    London, WC1E 6BT
    ph: 00 44 (0)20 76793163
    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/richardb/index.html
     

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    Programme:

            THURSDAY 14TH APRIL
    09.00 – 09.15 Welcome

    09.15 – 10.15 Invited Speaker: Ira Noveck (Institut des Sciences
    Cognitives, Lyon)
    Title TBA
    10.15 – 11.00 Gianluca Storto, Michael Tanenhaus & Gregory Carlson
    (Rochester)
    The calculation of scalar implicatures: An experimental investigation
    11.00 – 11.30 Tea & Coffee
    11.30 – 12.15 Yi Ting Huang & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard)
    What Exactly do Numbers Mean?
    12.15. – 13.15 Invited Speaker: Julien Musolino (Indiana)
    Title TBA
    13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break
    14.30 – 15.30 Invited Speaker: Martin Pickering (Edinburgh)
    Title TBA
    15.30 – 16.15 Kiwako Ito & Shari Speer (Ohio)
    The effect of intonation on visual search: An eye-tracking study
    16.15 – 16.45 Tea & Coffee
    16.45 – 17. 30 Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv)
    Most: What you see is what you get
    17.30 – 18.30 Wine Reception - Sponsored by Palgrave-Macmillan
     

            FRIDAY 15TH
    09.15 – 10.15 Invited Speaker: Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
    Title TBA
    10.15 – 11.00 Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge)
    Discourse and Structural Constraints on the Generation of Scalar
    Implicatures
    11.00 – 11.30 Tea & Coffee
    11.30 – 12.15 Kenneth Drodz (Aarhus)
    Children’s comprehension of focus-sensitive quantification
    12.15 – 13.15 Invited Speaker: Stephen Crain (Macquarie)
    Title TBA
    13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break
    14.30 – 15.30 Invited Speaker: Uli Sauerland (Berlin)
    Title TBA
    15.30 – 16.15 Kazuko Yatsushiro (Berlin)
    The Acquisition of Presuppositions: The Presuppositions of Every
    16.15 – 17.00 Poster session
    17.00 – 18.00 Invited Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (Rochester)
    Title TBA
    19.30 – 21. 30 Conference Dinner
     

            SATURDAY 16TH
    09.15 – 10.15 Invited Speaker: Gennaro Chierchia (Milan)
    Title TBA
    10.15 - 11.00
            Coralie Chevalier & Ira Novek (Institut des Sciences Cognitives,
    Lyon)
    Influence of intonation on the production of implicatures:
    Insights from reaction times, ERP and patient studies
    11.00 – 11.30 Tea & Coffee
    11.30 – 12.15 Sarah Beck (Birmingham)
    Children’s understanding of multiple possibilities
    12.15. – 13.15 Invited Speaker: Anna Paparfagou (Delaware)
    Title TBA
    13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break
    14.30 – 15.30 Round Table

     

    Alternate Papers:
    Heiner Drenhaus, Peter beim Graben, Douglas Saddy & Stefan Frisch (Potsdam)
    On the interaction between pragmatics and syntax:
    When a Negative Polarity Item is not licensed

    Bernhard Fisseni, Robert van Rooij & Bernhard Schr๖der (Bonn & Amsterdam)
    Experiments on Exhaustive Strengthening

    Poster Presentations:

    Fabian Battaglini (Utrecht)
    Psychological validity vs logical validity

    Anouschka Bergmann (Ohio)
    The Prosody of Focus and Information Structure in Veneto Italian

    Soile Loukusa, Nuala Ryder & Eeva Leinonen (Hertfodshire)
    The development of pragmatic comprehension in 3–9-year-old Finnish speaking
    children

    Alyson Pitts (Cambridge)
    Assessing the evidence for intuitions about ‘what is said’

    Galit Sassoon (Tel Aviv)
    Typicality: An Improved Analysis

    Danijela Trenkic (York)
    Variability in L2 article production: semantic and pragmatic factors

    Anna Verbuk (UMass)
    Acquisition of Supplementary Expressions

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