Recent Publications

2025

Larralde, C., Pouscoulous, N., Morgan Moyer & Noveck, I.A. (in press) Isolating the extra-logical features of discourse connectives: On the processing of but and so. Glossa Psycholinguistics

Ronderos, C. R., Falkum, I., Noveck, I. (in press). The social dimension of mindreading: Developmental evidence for the role of social categorization during utterance interpretation. Philosophical Transactions B

Larralde, C., & Noveck, I.A. (in press) Deciphering the electrophysiological signature of discourse connectives.  Journal of Pragmatics.

Griffen, N. & Noveck, I. A. (in press). What norming reveals about idioms: Making the case for a presuppositional account.  Memory & Cognition.

Larralde, C. Moyer, M. & Noveck, I. A. (2025) Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing.  In Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen/Jacqueline Visconti, eds.) 

2024

Ronderos, C. R., Noveck, I., & Falkum, I. (in press). Straight enough: Deriving imprecise interpretations of absolute adjectives.  Glossa Psycholinguistics.

Petit, N. Bambini, V., Bischetti, L., Prado, J. & Noveck, I.A. (in press). How Do Theory of Mind and Formal Language Skills Impact Metaphoric Reference Comprehension During Children’s School-Age Years.  JEP:LM&C 

Petit, N., Noveck, I., Baltazar, M., & Prado, J. (2024). Assessing theory of mind in children: A tablet-based adaptation of a classic picture sequencing task. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-16.

2023

Noveck, I., Griffen, N. & Mazzarella, D. (2023). Taking stock of an idiom's background assumptions: An alternative relevance theoretic account. Frontiers Psychology.

Ronderos, C. R. & Noveck, I. (2023). Slowdowns in scalar implicature processing: Isolating the intention-reading costs in the Bott & Noveck task. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105480

Ronderos, C. R. Tomlinson, J. & Noveck, I. (2023). When irony is faster than its literal control: The role of mindreading during irony comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition.

2022

Noveck, I., Foegel, M., Von Voorhees, K., Turco, G. (2022). When eleven does not equal 11: Investigating exactness at a number’s upper bound. PLoS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266920

2021

Noveck, I. A., Petit, N., Tian, Y. & Turco, G. (2021). Revealing pragmatic processes through a one-word answer:  The French reply Si. Journal of Memory and Language. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1d5Ny,H2pbbGn

Müller, T. Winters, J. Morisseau, T. Noveck, I. & Morin, O.  (2021). Color terms: Native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application.  Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Mazzarella, D. & Noveck, I. (2021). Pragmatics and mind reading:  The puzzle of autism.  In Perspectives section (addressing Mikhail Kissine) in Language.

Courtier, P., Gardes, M-L, van der Henst, J-B, Noveck, I. A., Croset, M-C, Epinat-Duclos, J., Léone, J., & Prado, J.  (2021). Effects of Montessori education on the academic, cognitive, and social development of disadvantaged preschoolers: A randomized controlled study in the French public-school system. Child Development. 

2018

Noveck, I. A. (2018).  Experimental Pragmatics: The making of a cognitive science.  Cambridge University Press.

(Original cover art by Didier Cailly)

Kronmüller, E. & Noveck, I. A. (2019) How do addressees exploit conventionalizations?  From a negative reference to a pragmatic inference through ad hoc scales. Frontiers.

Noveck, I.A. (2019).  From Queensberry rules to Argumentative Theory: A review of Mercier & Sperber's The Enigma of Reason. Teorema.

Mazzarella, D., Reinecke, R., Noveck, I. A . & Mercier, H. (2018) Saying, presupposing and implicating: How pragmatics modulates commitment.  Journal of Pragmatics

Mazzarella, D., Trouche, E., Mercier, H. & Noveck, I. A. (2018) Believing what you’re told: Politeness and scalar inferences. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 908.

Noveck, I.A. (2018).  Experimental Pragmatics.  Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics.  In S. Rueschmeyer & Gareth Gaskell  (Eds.) Oxford: OUP.

Schwartz, F., Epinat-Duclos, J., Noveck, I. & Prado, J. (2018). The neural development of pragmatic inference-making in natural discourse.  Developmental Science.

Spotorno, N. & Noveck, I.A. (2018) Irony.  In N. Katsos & C. Cummins (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: OUP.

Spychalska, M. Kontinen, J., Noveck, I., Roesch, L., & Werning, M. (in press) When numbers are not exact: ambiguity and prediction in the processing of sentences with bare numerals. JEP: LM&C.

Van Tiel, B. Noveck, I., Kissine, M.  (in press) Reasoning with 'Some'. Journal of Semantics.

Kronmüller, E., Noveck, I., Rivera, N., Jaume-Guazzini, F., & Barr, D. (2017). The positive side of a negative reference: the delay between linguistic processing and common ground. Royal Society Open Science, 4(2), 160827.

Morisseau, T., Mermillod, M., Eymond, C., van der Henst, J-B, & Noveck, I.A. (2017). You can laugh at everything, but not with everyone: What jokes can tell us about group affiliations.  Interaction Studies.

Katsos, N., Cummins, C. 30+ authors, & Noveck, I. (2016). Cross-linguistic Patterns in the Acquisition of Quantifiers. PNAS.

Prado, J., Spotorno, N., Koun, E., Hewitt, E., Van der Henst, J.B., Sperber, D., & Noveck, I.A. (2015). Neural interaction between logical reasoning and pragmatic processing in narrative discourse.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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Grossman, E. & Noveck, I. A. (2015) What can Historical Linguistics and Experimental Pragmatics Offer Each Other? Linguistics Vanguard.

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Spotorno, N. & Noveck, I. A.  (2014).  When is irony effortful?  JEP: General, 143(4), 1649-1665.

Spotorno-Noveck-JEP-G preprint.pdf

Krönmuller, E., Morisseau, T. & Noveck, I. A. (2014).Show me the pragmatic contribution: A developmental investigation of referential communication. Journal of Child Language., 41(5), 985-1014.

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Spotorno, N., Van der Henst, J-B, Cheylus, A., Noveck, I.A. (2013) What’s behind a P600: PLoS. 8 (6).

Noveck, I.A. & Spotorno, N. (2013) Experimental Pragmatics J. Verschueren (Ed.). Handbook of Pragmatics. Benjamins Publishing Company.

Noveck, I.A. & Spotorno, N. (2013) . Narrowing. In Brevity (Laurence Goldstein, Ed.). OUP.