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Cognitive Science
University of Osnabrück
Wachsbleiche 27, Room 50/103
49090 Osnabrück
Nicole Gotzner
I am a professor and Vice Director at the Cognitive Science Institute at Osnabrück University. My research areas are Semantics, Pragmatics and Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics. I lead the SPA Lab, which is partly funded by the DFG Emmy Noether program. Visit my lab's website for more information.
Before coming to Osnabrück University, I was a group leader at the University of Potsdam, I held a replacement professorship at Humboldt University (Berlin) and a postdoc position at ZAS (Berlin), funded by the Priority Program Xprag.de. I was a visiting researcher at Macquarie University (Sydney) and Stanford (Palo Alto). Currently, I am an honorary fellow at UCL (London) and Ulster University (Belfast).
I am the editor-in-chief of Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition and a member of the Editorial Board of Glossa: Psycholinguistics.
5 most important publications
Gotzner, N. & Romoli, J. (2022). Meaning and alternatives. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8, 213-234, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031220-012013
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. (2021). Face management and negative strengthening: The role of power relations, social distance and gender. Frontiers in Psychology: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602977
Gotzner, N., Barner, D. & Crain, S. (2020). Disjunction triggers exhaustivity implicatures in 4- to 5-year-olds. Journal of Semantics, 37, 219-245.
Gotzner, N. (2019). The role of focus intonation in implicature computation: A comparison with only and also, Natural Language Semantics, 27, 189-226. doi: 10.1007/s11050-019-09154-7
Gotzner, N. (2017). Alternative sets in language processing: How focus alternatives are represented in the mind. Palgrave studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan
NEWS
New paper in Open Mind on the Role of Loopholes in Polite Communication related to our DFG Grant with UC Irvine
Newspaper article in TAZ:"Nicht schlecht" kann alles heißen.
https://taz.de/Osnabruecker-Hoeflichkeits-Forschung/!5939647/
Paper published in Journal of Semantics
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Negative strengthening: Interplay of evaluative polarity and scale structure
New international collaboration grant with Prof. Gregory Scontras (UC Irvine) on "Modeling the role of loopholes in communication"
I joined the faculty of the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University and became a board member
I will give keynote talks at the DIP colloquium in Amsterdam (8th April via Zoom), Sinn und Bedeutung and the 9th XPRAG conference in September
I am joining the Editorial Board of Glossa: Psycholinguistics
SPA Lab is proud to host the XPRAG Wine Gatherings together with Ira Noveck (CNRS):
