Publications

Published

Rees, A., Carter, E., & Bott, L. (2023). Priming scalar and ad hoc enrichment in children. Cognition, 239, 105572. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105572 Data available https://osf.io/b9sjn/

Rees, A & Bott, L. (2019) Overlapping mechanisms in implying and inferring. Cognitive Science, 44, e12808. DOI: 10.111/cogs.12808 Data available https://osf.io/9m68g/ 

Rees,  A, Bott, L, & Schumacher, P. (2019) Event-related potentials in pragmatic priming. Neuroscience Letters, 712, 134435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134435 Data available https://osf.io/qfwrg/ 

Rees, A & Bott, L (2018). The role of alternative salience in the derivation of scalar implicatures. Cognition, 174, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.024 Data available https://osf.io/986c2/ 

Rees, A & Bott, L. (2017). Structural priming is a useful but imperfect technique for studying all linguistic representations, including those of pragmatics. Commentary on Branigan & Pickering “An experimental approach to linguistic representation.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e370.

Bott, L, Rees, A, & Frisson, S (2016). The time course of familiar metonymy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1160-1170. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000218

PhD Thesis 

Rees, A (2018). Priming Pragmatic Enrichment. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

Rees, A, & Rohde, H. (2023) Availability and timing of informativity inferences.  Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia. Data available https://osf.io/nbhya/

Rees, A, & Rohde, H. (2022) Effects of negation and knowledgeability on pragmatic inferences.  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada. Data available https://osf.io/q8t9a/

Rees, A, Carter, E., & Bott, L. (2021). Priming implicatures in young children.  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria. Data available https://osf.io/b9sjn/

Rees, A. & Bott, L. (2017). Priming implicit communication. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London UK.

Rees, A. & Bott, L. (2017). A visual world priming study of Gricean implicatures. The Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 117 (149), 109-114.

Under review

Rees, Reksnes, & Rohde (under review) Why are you telling me this? Availability and timing of triviality-driven inferences from informationally redundant utterances. Preprint https://psyarxiv.com/ynrbd Data available https://osf.io/nbhya/

Reksnes, Rees, Cummins, & Rohde (under review) Tell me something I don’t know: Speaker presence and style affects comprehenders’ expectations for informativity

Skarabela, Cuthbert, Rees, Rohde, & Rabagliati (under review) Learning dimensions of meaning: Children’s acquisition of but