Pragmatic Inference Lab
2026
October
Ivan’s paper got published! Check out “Event plausibility modulates production and comprehension of referential expressions.”, co-authored with Vera Demberg, Martin V. Butz and Asya Achimova: link.
Natalia, Peter König, and Asya presented their poster “Credibility of presupposed and asserted information”, and Ivan presented his poster “Probabilistic accounts of the proviso problem: experimental evidence” at Linguistic Evidence 2026.
September
- Asya presented “Causal Structure of Events Affects the Processing of Event Descriptions” at the Learning and Using Linguistic Structure: Computational and Experimental Perspectives Workshop, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Güliz Günes and Asya presented “Intonational correlates of event plausibility,” and Laura, Gemma, Gerhard Jäger, and Asya presented their poster “Do Children Always Need Theory of Mind to Understand Irony? The Role of Common Ground” at XPrag 2026.
- Asya presented a poster with the new results of the implicit causality project, and Gemma and Laura shared their work on perspective taking at AMLaP 2026 in Saarbrücken.
August
- Ivan, Güliz Günes, and Asya presented “Effect of surprisal on the form and prosody of referring expressions” at the CORE Project Workshop, ESSLLI 2026.
June
Asya gave a keynote presentation at the retreat of the TAM cluster, titled “Looking ahead, looking back: Prediction and inference in language understanding”.
Asya and Jasmin presented their poster “Conflict-Sensitive Communication: How German and American Speakers Navigate Controversial Topics” at the Workshop Modeling Common Ground Across Divides. The poster was co-authored with Martin Butz and Dirk Wildgruber (all University of Tübingen).
Rosario Tomasello (FU Berlin) visited the lab and gave a talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium. Gemma and Laura discussed their ideas about irony understanding and what kind of neural networks it involves.
May
- Paula Rubio-Fernández (MPI Nijmegen & CNRS) visited the lab. We discussed our projects on irony and a new project on prosodic annotation of the Monsters data.
April
- Natalia Krasikova joined the lab, she will be working on the Presuppositions project. Welcome to our team, Natalia!
March
- Asya organized a symposium “Communication strategies in the age of polarization” at TeaP 2026.
