Vol. 2 (2023)

This volume contains articles derived from presentations at the second Experiments in Linguistic Meaning conference (ELM 2), which was hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, May 18–20, 2022.

Editors: Tyler Knowlton, Florian Schwarz, Anna Papafragou

Editorial Committee: Emory Davis, Martin Fuchs, Cecile Larralde, Melissa Nieves Rivera, Mieke Slim, and Sadhwi Srinivas

Published: 2023-01-27

Articles

Transparency in the processing of temporal ambiguity: The case of embedded tense

Giuliano Armenante, Vera Hohaus, Britta Stolterfoht

1-12
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Corpus evidence for the role of world knowledge in ambiguity reduction: Using high positive expectations to inform quantifier scope

Noa Attali, Lisa S. Pearl, Gregory Scontras

13-23
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You must worry! The interpretation of mustn’t varies with context and verbal complement

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz, Roxana Pătrunjel

24-35
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Investigating a shared mechanism in the priming of manner and quantity implicature

Joe Cowan, Napoleon Katsos

36-48
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On the interpretation of German einige. The effect of tense and cardinality

Maya Cortez Espinoza, Lea Fricke

49-60
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Crosslinguistic differences on the Present Perfect Puzzle: An experimental approach

Martín Fuchs, Martijn van der Klis

61-71
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The rise and particularly fall of presuppositions: Evidence from duality in universals

Remus Gergel, Maike Puhl, Simon Dampfhofer, Edgar Onea

72-82
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On a concessive reading of the rise-fall-rise contour: contextual and semantic factors

Alexander Göbel, Michael Wagner

83-94
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Comparing Global and Local Accommodation: Rating and Response Time Data

Alexander Göbel, Florian Schwarz

95-103
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Testing the influence of QUDs on the occurrence of Conditional Perfection

Britta Grusdt, Mingya Liu, Michael Franke

104-116
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The enduring effects of default focus in let alone ellipsis: Evidence from pupillometry.

Jesse Harris

117-128
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Default biases in the interpretation of English negation, conjunction, and disjunction

Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez, Kathryn Davidson

129-141
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Proportions vs. cardinalities: Comparative ambiguities and the COVID pandemic

Elsi Kaiser

142-153
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Real-time processing of indexical and generic expressions: Insights from, and implications for, COVID-related public health messages

Elsi Kaiser, Jesse Storbeck

154-163
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Visual boundaries in sign motion: processing with and without lip-reading cues

Julia Krebs, Evie A. Malaia, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Dietmar Roehm

164-175
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Beyond Surprising: English Event Structure in the Maze

Lisa Levinson

176-188
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Five degrees of (non)sense: Investigating the connection between bullshit receptivity and susceptibility to semantic illusions

Dario Paape

189-201
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When Transformer models are more compositional than humans: The case of the depth charge illusion

Dario Paape

202-218
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The investigation of quantity implicatures during typical development: a systematic review

Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian

219-228
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Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming

Eszter Ronai, Ming Xiang

229-240
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Semantics of Non-Doxastic Attitude Ascriptions from Experimental Perspective

Wojciech Rostworowski, Katarzyna Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz

241-251
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Nonboolean Conditionals

Paolo Santorio, Alexis Wellwood

252-264
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Reading times show effects of contextual complexity and uncertainty in comprehension of German universal quantifiers

Fabian Schlotterbeck, Petra Augurzky

265-277
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Modeling the Role of Polysemy in Verb Categorization

Elizabeth Soper, Jean-Pierre Koenig

278-287
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The role of relevance, competence, and priors for scalar inferences

Polina Tsvilodub, Bob van Tiel, Michael Franke

288-298
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Informational content vs. discourse orientation: experimental and computational perspectives

Grégoire Winterstein, Ghyslain Cantin-Savoie, Samuel Laperle, Josiane Van Dorpe, Nora Villeneuve

299-309
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Representing affect information in word embeddings

Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang, Xiajie Zhang

310-321
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Effects of instruction on semantic and pragmatic judgment tasks

Ziling Zhu, Dorothy Ahn

322-330
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Vol. 2 (2023)

Articles

Transparency in the processing of temporal ambiguity: The case of embedded tense

Corpus evidence for the role of world knowledge in ambiguity reduction: Using high positive expectations to inform quantifier scope

You must worry! The interpretation of mustn’t varies with context and verbal complement

Investigating a shared mechanism in the priming of manner and quantity implicature

On the interpretation of German einige. The effect of tense and cardinality

Crosslinguistic differences on the Present Perfect Puzzle: An experimental approach

The rise and particularly fall of presuppositions: Evidence from duality in universals

On a concessive reading of the rise-fall-rise contour: contextual and semantic factors

Comparing Global and Local Accommodation: Rating and Response Time Data

Testing the influence of QUDs on the occurrence of Conditional Perfection

The enduring effects of default focus in let alone ellipsis: Evidence from pupillometry.

Default biases in the interpretation of English negation, conjunction, and disjunction

Proportions vs. cardinalities: Comparative ambiguities and the COVID pandemic

Real-time processing of indexical and generic expressions: Insights from, and implications for, COVID-related public health messages

Visual boundaries in sign motion: processing with and without lip-reading cues

Beyond Surprising: English Event Structure in the Maze

Five degrees of (non)sense: Investigating the connection between bullshit receptivity and susceptibility to semantic illusions

When Transformer models are more compositional than humans: The case of the depth charge illusion

The investigation of quantity implicatures during typical development: a systematic review

Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming

Semantics of Non-Doxastic Attitude Ascriptions from Experimental Perspective

Nonboolean Conditionals

Reading times show effects of contextual complexity and uncertainty in comprehension of German universal quantifiers

Modeling the Role of Polysemy in Verb Categorization

The role of relevance, competence, and priors for scalar inferences

Informational content vs. discourse orientation: experimental and computational perspectives

Representing affect information in word embeddings

Effects of instruction on semantic and pragmatic judgment tasks

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