Talks and presentations
2024
Achimova, A., Franke, M., & M.V. Butz. Production and interpretation of indirect utterances. Paper presented at the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference. Venice. September 27, 2024.
Achimova, A., van Os, M., Demberg, V., & M.V. Butz. Interpreting implausible event descriptions under noise. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam. July 25, 2024.
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Achimmova, A., Franke, M., & M.V. Butz. Inferring the meaning of indirect utterances. Paper presented at the Linguistics of Political Discourse Summer School. Graz, Austria. July 2, 2024
Achimova, A., Franke, M., & M.V. Butz. Probing the state of common ground through indirectness. Paper presented at the conference Common Ground in linguistics: from its construction to its role in mapping meaning. Paris, Nanterre. April 25, 2024
Achimova, A., van Os, M., Demberg, V., & M.V. Butz. Event predictability affects production of anaphoric references. Paper to be presented at DGfS Annual Meeting 2024. Work group: Naturalistic approaches to reference. Bochum. February 29, 2024
2023
Achimova, A. Two models of strategic ambiguity. Keynote presentation. Computational Cognition Conference 2023. Osnabrück. October 9, 2023
Achimova, A., van Os, M., Knoblich, S., Demberg, V., & M.V. Butz. Predictability in production and perception of anaphoric references. Paper presented at XPrag 10th : Xth biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics. Paris. September 22, 2023
Dietrich, S., Achimova, A., Butz, M.V., & B. Rolke. Was it the bear or the lion? Evaluating different disambiguation cues in pronoun interpretation. Poster presented at TeaP 2023 (Conference of Experimental Psychologists), Trier, Germany. March 29, 2023
2022
Achimova, A., Musolino, J., Pasquinelli, R., Butz, M.V., & B. Landau. Semantic meaning of scalar terms in speakers with Williams Syndrome. Paper presented at XPrag 2022: 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Pavia, Italy. September 22, 2022
Achimova, A., & M. Beukman. Ambiguity remains a rare skill for learning about others even when stimuli carry social relevance. Paper presented at KogWis 2022: 5th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science. Freiburg, Germany. September 7, 2022
Achimova, A., Musolino, J., Pasquinelli, R., Butz, M.V., & B. Landau. Understanding of linguistic scales in speakers with Williams Syndrome. Flash talk and poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hybrid conference, Toronto, Canada. July 29, 2022 pdf.
2021
Achimova, Asya & Martin V. Butz. Social inferencing in communication. Poster presented at the Meaning in Context Workshop at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021). December 13, 2021
Achimova, Asya & Martin V. Butz. Discovering shared reality in ambiguity resolution. Moscow HSE Pragmatics Workshop. September 30, 2021
Achimova, Asya, Stegemann-Philipps, Christian, Butz, Martin V., & Susanne Winkler. Referring to agents in an artificial world: The role of predictability. Sinn und Bedeutung 26. September 9, 2021. link to OSF repository
Stegemann-Philipps, C., Butz, M., Winkler, S., & A. Achimova. Speakers use more informative referring expressions to describe surprising events. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual conference. July 29, 2021.
Achimova, A., Ebert-Rohleder, M., Elxnath, N., Geiger, L., Hofmaier, L., Klenk, J., Vollstedt, T., & A. Zirker. Ambiguity in Discourse:The Tübingen Interdisciplinary Corpus of Ambiguity Phenomena. Paper presented at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland. July 1, 2021. Virtual conference
2020
Achimova, A., Eisemann, E., and M.V. Butz. Bayesian preference inference in dialogue. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual conference. 2020.
Achimova, A. and M.V. Butz. Ambiguous descriptions facilitate information gain. Flash-talk presented at the workshop From Efficient Coding to Information Gain: Information-Theoretic Principles in Models of Human Decision Making held at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual conference. 2020.
2019
Achimova, A., Staroverov, P., Scontras, G., and M. Butz. Topics take wide scope: An empirical test of a theoretical claim. Information Structure and Ambiguity – The Process of Integrating Sentences into Discourse. Tübingen, Germany.
Scontras, G., Achimova, A., Stegemann, C., and M. Butz. The added informativity of ambiguous utterances. Poster presented at Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG) Edinburgh, UK.
Scontras, G., Achimova, A., Stegemann, C., and M. Butz. On the purpose of ambiguous utterances. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Montreal, Canada.
2018
Achimova, A., Butz, M., Déprez, V., Musolino, J. More ambiguous questions: Discourse licenscing of inverse scope. Workshop on Ambiguity as Information Gaps: Processes of Creation and Resolution, Tübingen, Germany.
2015
Achimova, A., Déprez, V., Musolino, J. The subject/object asymmetry in questions with quantifiers: syntax or discourse? Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, Budapest, Hungary.
2013
Musolino, J., Achimova, A., Landau, B. Logic and felicity in the face of mental retardation: Evidence from linguistic quantification in Williams Syndrome. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development 38 (BUCLD), Boston, Massachusetts.
Achimova, A., Deprez, V. Specificity matters even when definiteness transfers, International Congress of Linguistics (CIL 19). Geneva, Switzerland.
2012
Achimova, A., Crosby, C., Deprez, V., Syrett, K., Musolino, J. Which account of wh-/quantifier interaction should everyone adopt: a new take on a classic developmental puzzle. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development 37 (BUCLD), Boston, Massachusetts.
Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. Informal judgments in formal settings: pair-list answers in naïve speakers and professional linguists. Paper presented at Penn Linguistic Colloquium (PLC 36), UPenn, Philadelphia, PA.
Crosby, C., Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. How did every child answer each question? Wh-/quantifier interaction in children. Poster presented at Aresty Undergraduate Symposium.
Huang, S., Ortega, M., Patel, A., Achimova, A., Deprez, V. Determiner acquisition in L2 French. Poster presented at Aresty Undergraduate Symposium.
2011
Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. Naive speakers vs. professional linguists: same or different. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Rutgers Linguistic Conference (RULing), NJ.
Venezia, F., Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. How to answer which questions: an experimental approach. Poster presented at Aresty Undergraduate Symposium.
Kon, M., Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. Who can participate in an experiment: a study on linguistic methodology. Poster presented at Aresty Undergraduate Symposium.
2010
Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. What makes pair-list answers available: an experimental approach. Paper presented at the 41th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS), UPenn, Philadelphia, PA.
Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. Reinterpreting wh/quantifier interaction: what can experimentation tell us about grammar. Poster presented at the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tomsk, Russia.
Achimova, A., Deprez, V., Musolino, J. Resolving wh-/quantifier ambiguities: an experimental approach. A talk presented at the 5th Annual Rutgers Linguistic Conference (RULing), NJ.
2007
Achimova, A. Token frequency, type frequency and phonological features of input: Influence on verb acquisition. Poster presented at the Child Language Seminar, Reading, Great Britain.
2006
Achimova, A. Verb form building innovations in child speech (5-7-year-olds). Paper presented at the Problems of Child Language Studies Seminar, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Achimova, A. Factors determining the choice of verb paradigm in child speech.Paper presented at the International Symposium on Psycholinguistics, Moscow, Russia.
2004
Achimova, A. Classification of verb innovations in child speech (evidence from English). Paper presented at the Students conference in Linguistics, Perm, Russia.
2003
Achimova, A. Polyphony in the novel “A room with a view” by E.M. Forster. Paper presented at the Students conference in World Literature, Perm, Russia.