Publications

Lorge, I. & Katsos, N. (in press). Bilingual children display comparative strength using prosodic cues for pragmatic word learning. International Journal of Bilingualism. DOI: 10.1177/13670069231204139 

2023

Cowan, J., & Katsos, N. (2023). Investigating a shared mechanism in the priming of manner and quantity implicature. Proceedings of ELM 2, 36-48,  https://doi.org/10.3765/elm 

Lorge, I. & Katsos, N. (2023). Monolingual and bilingual children’s performance learning words from ostensive teaching. Pragmatics & Cognition. 30:1, pp31-58 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pc.22018.lor 

Katsos, N., Gonzales de Linares, B., Ostashchenko, E., & Wilson, E. (2023). Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too. Cognition. 241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105582 

Wilson, E., Lawrence, R., & Katsos, N. (2023). The role of perspective-taking in children’s quantity implicatures. Language Learning and Development, 19:2, 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2050236 

2022

Sharma, C., Katsos, N., & Gibson, J. (2022). Associations between bilingualism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-related behaviour in a community sample of primary school children. Applied Psycholinguistics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716422000108 

Vassiliu, C., Mouzaki, A., Antoniou, F., Ralli, A., Diamanti, V., Papaioannou, S., & Katsos, N. (2022) Development of Structural and Pragmatic Language Skills in Children with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder. Communication Disorders Quarterly https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.86240  

Wilson, E., Lawrence, R., & Katsos, N. (2022). The role of perspective-taking in children’s quantity implicatures. Language Learning and Development, 19:2, 167-187, https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2050236 

2021

Katsos, N. (2021). The Implicature and Perspective-Taking Task: A novel way of investigating the relation between pragmatics and mind-reading. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 13(7): 144–157 https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/files/copil_13_7_katsos.pdf 

Katsos, N. & Andrés-Roqueta, C. (2021) Where next for pragmatics and mind reading? A situation-based view (Response to Kissine). Language. 97(3), pp. e184-e197 https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2021.0036 

Katsos, N., Banerjee, E., Chang, Y.J., Clark, T., Cowan, J., Williamson, T. R., & Witkowska, Z. (2021). Review of Experimental Pragmatics: The Making of a Cognitive Science by Ira Noveck. Journal of Pragmatics, 185, 108-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.09.006.

Katsos, N. & Gibson, J. (2021). Language competence and beyond: Understanding the lived experience of bilingualism for autistic people. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1, pp. 65–70 https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21070.kat 

Katsos, N., Gibson, J., Lorge, I., Mueller, L-M., Ozturk, O., Reynolds, J., Wilson. E., & Forbes, K. (2021). Language Skills and Identity in Bilingual Education: A case study of a bilingual primary school in England. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 13(2): 35-62 https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/files/copil_13_2_katsos_et_al.pdf 

Wilson, E., & Katsos, N. (2021). Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences. Journal of Child Language, 1-28. https://doi:10.1017/S0305000921000453  

2020

Andrés-Roqueta, C. & Katsos, N. (2020). A distinction between linguistic- and social-pragmatics helps the precise characterisation of pragmatic challenges in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 63(5):1494-1508  https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00263 (pdf)

Gréaux, M., Katsos, N., & Gibson, J.L. (2020). 'Recognising and Protecting the Communication Rights of Autistic Children', Languages, Society and Policy. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.60323 

Howard, K., Katsos, N. & Gibson, J. (2020). Practitioners' perspectives and experiences of supporting bilingual pupils on the autism spectrum in two linguistically different educational settings. British Educational Research Journal, 47(2):427-449 https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3662 

Howard, K., Gibson, J. & Katsos, N. (2020). Parental perceptions and decisions regarding maintaining bilingualism in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04528-x (pdf)

Müller, L.-M., Howard, K., Wilson, E., Gibson, J. & Katsos, N. (2020). Bilingualism in the family and child well-being: a scoping review. International Journal of Bilingualism. 10.1177/1367006920920939 (pdf)

Wilson, E., & Katsos, N. (2020). Acquiring implicatures. In Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics, edited by Klaus P. Schneider and Elly Ifantidou, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, pp. 119-148. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431056-005 

2019

Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M. ,& Katsos, N. (2019). How does childhood bilingualism and bi-dialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of pragmatic meanings? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18, 1-18 doi:10.1017/S1366728918001189 

Cummins, C. & Katsos, N. (2019). Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, (eds) Oxford University Press

Howard, K., Katsos, N., & Gibson, J. (2019). Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Autism Research. Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318823902  

Howard, K., Katsos, N., & Gibson, J. (2019). The School Experiences of Bilingual Children on the Autism Spectrum: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 87, 9-20 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2019.01.008

Kašćelan, D., Katsos, N., & Gibson, J. L. (2019). Relations between bilingualism and autistic-like traits in a general population sample of primary school children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49(6), 2509–2523 DOI:10.1007/s10803-019-03994-2.

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Katsos, N., & Stockall, L. (2019). Generalizing About Striking Properties: Do Glippets Love to Play With Fire? Frontiers in Psychology. 10:1971.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01971

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Stockall, L., & Katsos, N. (2019). Contextualising generic and universal generalisations: quantifier domain restriction and the generic overgeneralisation effect. Journal of Semantics. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293932 

Olguin, A., Cekic, M., Bekinschtein, T.A., Katsos, N., & Bozic, M. (2019). Bilingualism and language similarity modify the neural mechanisms of selective attention. Scientific Reports. 9(1): article number 8204  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44782-3

2018

Lorge, I., & Katsos, N. (2018). Listener-adapted speech: Bilinguals adapt in a more sensitive way. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. DOI: 10.1075/lab.16054.lor (pdf)

Ozturk, O., Gibson, K., Howard, K. & Katsos, N. (2018). How does multilingualism affect the communication of children with neurodevelopmental disorders? RCSLT Bulletin, March, issue 791, pp. 26-29. Issue available here.

Veenstra, A., Antoniou, K., Katsos, N., & Kissine, M. (2018). Resisting attraction: Individual differences in executive control are associated with subject-verb agreement errors in production. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000516 (pdf)

Veenstra, A., Hollebrandse, B., & Katsos, N. (2018). Why some children accept under-informative utterances. Pragmatics & Cognition, 24(2), 297-313. (pdf)

2017

Andrés-Roqueta, C. & Katsos, N. (2017). The Contribution of Grammar, Vocabulary and Theory of Mind in Pragmatic Language Competence in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:996. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00996

Antoniou, K., & Katsos, N. (2017). The effect of childhood multilingualism and bilectalism on implicature understanding. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38 (4): 787-833 (pdf)

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Katsos, N. & Stockall, L. (2017). Generic and Universal Generalisations: Contextualising the 'Generic Overgeneralisation' Effect. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London: UK: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 724-729. (pdf)

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga,D. , Stockall, L. & Katsos, N. (2017). A new look at the 'Generic Overgeneralisation' effect, Inquiry. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2017.128599(pdf)

Mueller, L. M., Wilson, E., & Katsos, N. (2017). Multilingualism and wellbeing in the UK. A report by the Cambridge Bilingualism Network. (pdf)

2016

Antoniou, K., Cummins, C., & Katsos, N. (2016). Why only some adults reject under-informative utterances. Journal of Pragmatics, 99: 78–95. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2016.05.001 (pdf)

Antoniou, K., Grohmann, K., Kambanaros, M., & Katsos, N. (2016). The effect of childhood bilectalism and multilingualism on executive control. Cognition, 149: 18-30. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.002 (pdf)(data)

Foryś-Nogala, M., Haman, E., Katsos, N., Krajewski, G., & Schulz, P. (2016). Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Correlates of the Acquisition of Exhaustivity in Wh-Questions: A Study of Polish Monolingual Children. Language Acquisition, 24(1):27-51 DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2016.1179744 (pdf)

Katsos, N., Cummins, C., Ezeizabarrena, M., Gavarró, A., Kraljević, J. K., et al. (2016).Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(33): 9244–9249, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601341113 (submission pdf and files) (dataset)

Miękisz, A., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Kuś, K., O’Toole, C., & Katsos, N. (2016). The impact of a first-generation immigrant environment on the heritage language: productive vocabularies of Polish toddlers living in the UK and Ireland. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 20:2: 183-200DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1179259 (pdf)

Uljarević, M., Katsos, N., Hudry, K., & Gibson, J.L. (2016). Multilingualism and neurodevelopmental disorders – an overview of recent research and discussion of clinical implications. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(11): 1205-1217, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12596 (pdf)

2015

Armon-Lotem, S., Hamann, E., Jensen de Lopez, K., Smoczynska, M., Yatsushiro, K., Szczerbinski, M., ..., Katsos, N.,... van der Lely, H. (2015). A large scale cross-linguistic investigation of the acquisition of passive. Language Acquisition. 23:1, 27-56, DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2015.1047095

Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Stockal, L., & Katsos, N. (2015). Genericity is easy? Formal and experimental perspectives.  RATIO, Special Issue on ‘Investigating Meaning: Experimental Approaches’, Hansen, N. & Borg, E. (eds), 28(4): 470-494. (pdf)

Reetzke, R, Zou, X., Sheng, L., & Katsos, N. (2015). Communicative Development in Bilingually Exposed Chinese Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58(3):813-25. (pdf)

Varlokosta, S., Belletti , A., Costa, J., Friedmann, N., Gavarró, A., Grohmann, K., ..., Katsos, N., … Yatsushiro, K. (2016). A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Acquisition of Clitic and Pronoun Production. Language Acquisition, 23:1, 1-26, DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2015.1028628

2014

Antoniou, K., Katsos, N., Grohmann, K., & Kambanaros, M. (2014). Is bilectalism similar to bilingualism? An investigation into children’s vocabulary and executive control skills. In W.Orman & M., J. Valleau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 12-24). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (pdf)

Katsos, N. (2014). Scalar implicature. in Matthews, D. (ed) Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition (pp183-198). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pdf)

Katsos, N., & Wilson, E. (2014). Convergence and divergence between word learning and pragmatic inferencing. In Degen, J., Franke, M., & Goodman, N. (Eds.), Proceedings of Formal and Experimental Pragmatics 2014 (pp. 14-20) (pdf)

Soltys, J., Terkourafi, M. & Katsos, N. (2014). Disentangling Politeness Theory and the Strategic Speaker approach: Theoretical considerations and empirical predictions. Intercultural Pragmatics, 11(1): 31 – 56. (pdf)

2013

Andrés-Roqueta, C., Adrian, J.E., Clemente, R.A., & Katsos, N. (2013). Which are the best predictors of theory of mind delay in children with specific language impairment? International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 48(6):726-37. (pdf)

Breheny, R. E. T., Ferguson, H. J., & Katsos, N. (2013). Taking the epistemic step: Toward a model of on-line access to conversational implicatures.  Cognition. 126(3), 423-440. (pdf)

Cummins, C., Amaral, P. & Katsos, N. (2013). Backgrounding and accommodation of presuppositions: an experimental approach. In E. Chemla, V. Homer and G. Winterstein (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17, 201-218.

Cummins, C. & Katsos, N. (2013). Empirical and theoretical evidence for a model of quantifier production. In F. Liedtke and C. Schulze (eds.), Beyond Words: Content, context, and inference. Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 253-282. (pdf)

Davies, C. & Katsos, N. (2013). Are speakers and listeners ‘only moderately Gricean’? An empirical reply to Engelhardt, Bailey and Ferreira (2006). Journal of Pragmatics. 49(1), 78-106 (pdf)

2012

Breheny, R. E. T., Ferguson, H. J., & Katsos, N. (2012). Investigating the time-course of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28 (4), 443-467. (pdf)

Cummins, C., Amaral, P., & Katsos, N. (2012). Experimental Investigations of the Typology of Presupposition Triggers. Humana Mente, 23, 1-16. (pdf)

Cummins, C. & Katsos, N. (2012). Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage. In R. Finkbeiner, J. Meibauer and P. Schumacher (eds.), What is a Context? Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 229-250. (pdf)

Katsos, N. et al. (2012). The acquisition of quantification across languages: Some predictions. In Proceedings of the 26th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Alia K. Biller, Esther Y. Chung, and Amelia Kimball (eds)(pp 258-268). Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA (pdf)

2011

Amaral, P., Cummins, C., & Katsos, N. (2011). Experimental evidence on the distinction between foregrounded and backgrounded meaning. In Kierstead, G. (ed) Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2011 Workshop on Projective Content, pp 1-7 , Ljubljana (pdf)

Katsos, N.(2011). Experimental Investigations and Pragmatic Theorising. In Allan, K. & Jaszczolt, K. (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press, pp275 – 290. (pdf)

Katsos, N., Andrés-Roqueta, C., Estevan, R. A. C., & Cummins, C. (2011). Are children with Specific Language Impairment Competent with the Pragmatics and Logic of Quantification? Cognition, 119: 43-57. (pdf)

Katsos, N., & Bishop, D. V. M. (2011) Pragmatic Tolerance: Implications for the Acquisition of Informativeness and Implicature. Cognition, 20: 67-81. (pdf)

2010

Cummins, C., & Katsos, N. (2010). Comparative and Superlative Quantifiers: Pragmatic Effects of Comparison Type. Journal of Semantics, 27: 271-305. (pdf)

Davies, C., & Katsos, N. (2010). Over-informative Children: Production/Comprehension Asymmetry or Tolerance to Pragmatic Violations? Lingua, 120/8: 1956-1972. (pdf)

Geurts, B., Katsos, N., Cummins, C., Moons, J., & Noordman, L. (2010). Scalar Quantifiers: Logic, Acquisition, and Processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(1): 130-48. (pdf)

Katsos, N., & Breheny, R. (2010). Two Experiments and Some Conclusions on the Meaning of Scalars and Numerals. In Nemeth, E. & Bibok, K. (Eds) The Role of Data at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Mouton Series in Pragmatics 8, De Gruyter – Mouton, pp125-160. (pdf)

Katsos, N., & Cummins, C. (2010). Pragmatics: From Theory to Experiment and Back Again. Language and Linguistics Compass, 4/5: 282-295. (pdf)

Katsos, N., & Cummins, C. (2010) Teaching and Learning Guide for Pragmatics: from theory to experiment and back again. Language and Linguistics Compass Teaching and Learning Guides, 3/1: 1-7. (pdf)

Katsos, N., & Smith, N. (2010). Pragmatic Tolerance and Speaker-Comprehender Asymmetries. In Franich, K., Iserman, K. M., and Keil, L. L. (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Boston University Conference in Language Development. Cascadilla Press, MA, USA, pp 221-232. (pdf)

Siddharthan, A., & Katsos, N. (2010). Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers. Long Paper in the Proceedings of NAACL HLT 2010 - the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (pdf)

2009

Katsos, N. (2009). Evaluating Under-informative Utterances with Context-dependent and Context- independent Scales: Experimental and Theoretical implications. In Sauerland, U. & Yatsushiro, K., Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition, pp 51-73. (pdf)

2008

Katsos, N. (2008). The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from an Experimental Perspective: the Case of Scalar Implicature. Synthese, 165: 385-401. Reprinted as chapter 7 in Pragmatics II (Critical Concepts in Linguistics), by Asha Kasher (ed), Routledge, London. (pdf)

2006

Breheny, R., Katsos,  N., & Williams, J. (2006). Are Generalised Scalar Implicatures Generated by Default?, Cognition, 100(3): 434-463 (pdf)

2005

Katsos,  N., Breheny,  R.,  &  Williams,  J.  (2005)  The  Interaction  of  Structural  and  Contextual  Constraints During the On-line Generation of Scalar Inferences. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp 1108-1113. (pdf)