Publications
Submitted manuscripts:
Spychalska, M. (in revision) When the order is irrelevant and when it matters: Investigating temporal implicatures of conjunctions using event-related brain potentials.
Preprints:
Spychalska, M., Haase, V. & Werning, M. To predict or not to predict: The role of context constraint and truth-value in negation processing. 10.31234/osf.io/gtme6
Journal Publications:
Spychalska, M., Reimer, L., Schumacher, P. & Werning, M. (2021) The cost of the epistemic step: Investigating scalar implicatures in full and partial information contexts. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Science (Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics); doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.679491
Haase, V., Spychalska, M., & Werning, M. (2019) Investigating the comprehension of negated sentences employing world knowledge: an event-related potential study. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences (The role of Alternatives in Language, eds. Spalek K. and S. Repp) doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02184
Spychalska, M., & Kontinen, J., Noveck, I., Reimer, L., & Werning, M. (2018) When numbers are not exact: ambiguity and prediction in the processing of sentences with bare numerals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol 45(7), Jul 2019, 1177-1204. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000644
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Jeffrey J. Holliday, Teresa Girolamo, Maria Spychalska, & Kelly Harper Berkson (2016). Is linguistic injustice a myth? A response to Hyland (2016). Journal of Second Language Writing, 34, 3-8 (download manuscript [PDF] available from Stephen Politzer-Ahles) Doi: 10.1016/j.jslw.2016.09.003
Spychalska, M., Kontinen, J., Werning, M. (2016) Investigating scalar implicatures in a truth-value judgment task: Evidence form event-related brain potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Doi: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1161806
Spychalska, M. (2015) At least not false, at most possible: between truth and assertibility of superlative quantifiers, Synthese. Online first: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0615-y.
Spychalska, M. O nieostrości raz jeszcze (On vagueness) (2010) Studia Semiotyczne XXVII, Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne, (Polish Semiotic Society Publishing), ed. Jerzy Pelc, Warszawa 2010, p. 56-69. (in Polish)
Publications in peer-reviewed proceedings and book-series:
Spychalska, M., Haase, V., Kontinen, J, & Werning, M. (2019, eds.). Processing of affirmation and negation in contexts with unique and multiple alternatives: Evidence from event-related potentials. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Spychalska, M., Kontinen, J., Noveck, I. Roesch, L. & Werning, M. (2015). Exploring the ambiguity between the "at least" and "exactly" interpretation of bare numerals with event-related brain potentials. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Spychalska, M., Kontinen, J., & Werning, M. (2014). Electrophysiology of Pragmatic Processing: Exploring the Processing Cost of the Scalar Implicature in the Truth-Value Judgment Task. In P. Bello et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Spychalska, M.(2012) Superlative quantifiers and epistemic interpretation of disjunction [in:] Jakub Szymanik and Rineke Verbrugge (eds.): Proceedings of the Logic & Cognition Workshop at ESSLLI 2012, Opole, Poland, 13-17 August, 2012, vol. 883 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, pp. 73-91.
Spychalska, M. (2010) From Inference to Meaning. Experimental Study on Reasoning with Quantifiers Some and Most. In. Bezhanishvili, Nick, Sebastian Löbner, Kerstin Schwabe & Luca Spada, Logic, Language, and Computation. 8th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2009, Bakuriani, Georgia, September 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6618. Heidelberg: Springer. pdf
Other publications in conference proceedings:
Spychalska, M. (2011) Processing sentences with negated predicates: the role of opposites. In. Proceedings of the 23rd ESSLLI Student Session, Ljubljana, 2011.
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