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Detailed Schedule (can be subject to changes)
Monday, 19th June
9:20-9:30 Introduction by the organizers 9:30-10:20 Keynote: Ira Noveck. What neuroimaging can add to experimental pragmatics? 10:20-11:00 Maria Spychalska. Speaker's competence, hearer's prediction, and the processing of scalar implicatures. 11:00-11:30 coffee 11:30-12:30 David Peeters. Introducing Virtual Reality as the Method of Choice for Experimental Pragmatics. & Johanne Tromp, David Peeters, Antje S. Meyer and Peter Hagoort. Combining Virtual Reality and EEG to study semantic and pragmatic processing in a naturalistic environment. 12:30-12:50 Suzanne Jongman, Antje Meyer and Vitoria Piai. Brain signature of planning for production: An EEG study. 12:50-14:00 lunch 14:00-14:50 Keynote: Steve Politzer-Ahles. Challenges in linking electrophysiological data to the theory of scalar implicature. 14:50-15:30 Daniele Panizza, Edgar Onea and Nivedita Mani. Early ERP evidence for children’s and adult’s sensitivity to scalar implicatures. 15:30-16:00 coffee 16:00-16:50 Keynote: Petra Schumacher. A neurocognitive perspective on compositionality. 16:50-17:10 Karolina Rataj, Anna Przekoracka-Krawczyk and Rob van der Lubbe. Meaning construction and novel metaphor comprehension: insights from electrophysiological data. 17:10-17:30 Katarzyna Jankowiak, Karolina Rataj and Ryszard NaskrÄ™cki. Bilingual novel and conventional metaphor comprehension: the N400 and LPC. 17:30-17:50 Maria Richter, Choonkyu Lee, Barbara Höhle and Isabell Wartenburger. Novel methodological approaches to perspective taking during referential communication. 19:30- open end Conference dinner
Tuesday, 20th June
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9:30-10:20 |
Keynote: Harm Brouwer. Neurocomputational Semantics and Pragmatics. |
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10:20-11:00
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Robert Reinecke and Jacques Jayez. Presupposition Processing: When backgrounded information is as expected as foregrounded information – The case of factive verbs. |
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11:00-11:30 |
coffee |
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11:30-12:20
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Keynote: Markus Werning.The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics in Linguistic Interpretation: Hearers’ Probabilistic Predictions in Discourses. |
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12:20-13:00 |
Michael Franke and Petra Augurzky. Incremental & predictive pragmatic interpretation: A rational analysis. |
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13:00-14:00 |
lunch |
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14:00-14:50
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Keynote: Valentina Bambini. The brain response to inferential meanings: a detour through different figures of speech. |
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14:50-15:30
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Ingmar Brilmayer, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky. The effect of context growth and lexical antecedent frequency on the EEG response to anaphoric pronouns during the comprehension of auditory stories. |
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15:30-16:00 |
coffee |
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16:00-16:40 |
Viviana Haase, An alternative approach to the comprehension of negated sentences: evidence from event-related potentials. |
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16:40-17:20 |
Mingya Liu, Peter König and Jutta L. Mueller. Electrophysiological signatures of negative and positive polarity processing in German sentence comprehension. |
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17:20-18:00 |
Closing remarks, open discussion |