Projects and Participation

Recent and Current Funded Projects

• Alternatives and Implicit Meanings - Funded by the Leverhulme Trust

• IDEAlISM: Interactions between Dynamic Effects and Alternative-Based Inferences in the Study of Meaning - Funded by AHRC-DFG

Student Participation

For BA Linguistics, BSc Experimental Linguistics, MA Linguistics students or other MSc students, please visit your project web page (on moodle) for information about projects.

Past Experimental Projects with students:

2022-23

Testing the Impact of Pseudo-Alternative Primes on Scalar Implicature Generation (jointly supervised with Paul Marty & Yasu Sudo).

• Students involved: Samuel McMahon (BA Linguistics); Ke Wang (BA Linguistics).

The Effects of Context on the Response Time of the Literal  (co-supervised with Shaokang Jin - study appears in Poster at ELM3)

• Students involved: Nura Almohaimeed (MA Linguistics)

Priming effects of pseudo-alternatives in scalar implicature (co-supervised with Paul Marty & Yasu Sudo)

• Students involved: Lu Chen, Ziqi Jin, Jiajia Wang, Yuchen Zhang (MA Linguistics)

Scalar Diversity and QuD in Inference Tasks (co-supervised with Paul Marty and Yasu Sudo)

• Students involved: James Hardie, Joseph Petrie (MA Linguistics)

2021-22

Exploring the role of alternatives in the inference task for scalar implicatures (Jointly supervised with Yasu Sudo and Paul Marty - a talk at ELM3 and study reported in paper to appear.).

• Students involved: Marta Nagy (BA Linguistics); Jinnan Guo (BSc Experimental Linguistics); Szofia Varga (BSc Experimental Linguistics)

Priming relevant and irrelevant features in metaphorical and literal contexts (jointly supervised with Shaokang Jin - Poster at XPrag X).

• Students involved: Eirini Sossidi (MA Linguistics); Zhao Zhang (MA Linguistics); Xinqian Hu (MA Linguistics)

Exploring question/answer strategies in negative sentence verification in English and Mandarin speakers (jointly supervised with Shenshen Wang and Chao Sun)

• Students involved: Chenchuyan Liu (MA Linguistics); Chelsey Yang (MA Linguistics); Yundong Xiao (MA Linguistics); Ziqi Yuan (MSc Language Sciences)

The role of conjunction in priming Ad Hoc scalar implicatures (jointly supervised with Yasu Sudo and Paul Marty - results appear in Cognition paper ).

• Students involved:  Mingyuan Yang (MA Linguistics); Jeffrey Bai (MA Linguistics); Yijing Zhang (MA Linguistics); Lijie Yang (MA Linguistics); Lihan Yu (MA Linguistics)

2020-21

The cost of inferring context and content for negative sentences. (Jointly supervised with Shenshen Wang and Chao Sun. - at CUNY/HSP2022; at ELM2)

• Students involved: Anastasia Putilova (BA Linguistics), Xu Han (MA Linguistics); Grigorios Masouras (MSc Language Sciences)

The role of linguistic form in separating fact from opinion (jointly supervised with Paul Marty.)

• Students involved: Megan Hollyman & Emma Froome (BA Linguistics)

Scalar implicature in semi-cooperative contexts. (Jointly supervised with Paul Marty. - a talk at XPrag.de seminar series; a talk at SALT32; at ELM2)

• Students involved: Jack Farmer (BA Linguistics), Rebecca Ren (BSc Linguistics)

The role of context in the Metaphor Interference Effect (Jointly supervised with Shaokang Jin. - at CUNY/HSP2022; at ELM2)

• Students involved: Yian Chen, Jing Qin, Ziyi Zhao, Nura Almohaimeed (MA Linguistics)

Canonical and Symmetric Alternatives for Scalar Implicature (Jointly supervised with Yasu Sudo and Paul Marty.)

• Students involved: Xiaoyu Sun, Yizhen Jiang, Amber Taylor-Jackson, Xixing Chen (MA Linguistics)

2019-20

Priming scalar implicatures using Alternatives. (jointly supervised with Paul Marty & Yasu Sudo - a talk at CUNY 2021 Sentence processing conference!; poster at SALT31)

• Students involved: Joe Cowan (BA Linguistics); Zhiling Guo, Silin Wang, Jinghan Wang (MA Linguistics).

The cost of Indirect Scalar Implicatures (with Paul Marty & Yasu Sudo - at ELM2020)

• Students involved: Yan Liao; Yihang Shen (MA Linguistics)

Negative sentence verification in context (with Shenshen Wang and Chao Sun - at XPrag workshop; at CUNY2021; AMLaP2021; IPRA2021; XPrag.it2021; now published in J. of Psycholinguistic Research)

• Students involved: Pjotr Tabachnikoff (BA Linguistics); Yu Tang (MSc Lang. Sciences); David Basser (MA Linguistics)

The role of Emergent Properties in the Literal Prime Effect on Literal Truth-value Judgement for Metaphors (with Shaokang Jin)

• Students involved: Rachel Joiner (MSc Lang Sciences); Samaya Padhi (MRes SL&C)

On the source of the Metaphor Interference Effect (with Shaokang Jin - at CUNY2021; at AMLaP2021; IPRA2021)

• Students involved: Chunxin Gao, Xueer Wang (MA Linguistics)

2018-19

What the inference task tells us about numbers and what numbers tell us about the inference task (with Chao Sun - Poster at CUNY2020; ELM2020); Paper now published in Semantics & Pragmatics.

• Students involved: Blanche Gonzales de Linares (BSc Experimental Linguistics); Erying Qin (MSc Language Sciences); Yike Fu, Peixin Yu (MA Linguistics)

The role of frequency and Emergent Properties in the Literal Prime Effect on Metaphor Processing

• Students involved: Stoyana Tumbeva (MSc Language Sciences); Jin Pan, Ziyu Chen, Duo Zeng (MA Linguistics)

Questions and negative sentence processing

• Student involved: Christian Kim (MA Linguistics)

2017-18

Conventionality and Aptness in the Metaphor Interference Effect

• Students involved: Kelly Cheuk

Negative sentence processing (with Ye Tian)

• Students involved: Shenshen Wang

2016-17

Acquisition of 'and' and 'or' connectives in typically developing children

• Student involved: Suzanne Huldt (MRes SL&C)

2015-16

The role of shared information in the explicit false belief task (now published in JECP)

• Student involved: Gideon Salter (MSc Language Sciences)

Irony processing in adolescents and adults: an EEG study (with Wing Yee Chow and Irini Symeonidou - poster at CUNY2018)

• Student involved: Yangzi Zhou (MSc Language Sciences)