Presentations
Invited talks
Gotzner, N. Alternatives in theory and language processing. Invited talk, 10.5.2023. Distinguished speaker series, Saarbrücken University, Saarbrücken.
Gotzner, N. Valence, subjectivity and pragmatic inferences. Invited talk, 10.5.2023. Ruhr-Universität Bochum University, Bochum.
Gotzner, N. All you ever wanted to know about scales but were afraid to ask. Invited talk, 22.9.- 23.9.2022. Biennial XPRAG, Pavia.
Gotzner, N. Salar meaning and the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface. Invited talk, 14.9.- 16.9.2022. Sinn und Bedeutung, Prag.
Gotzner, N. Measurement scales and Horn scales. Invited talk, 16.5.- 18.5.2022. COSAQ workshop, ILLC, Amsterdam.
Gotzner, N. Vagueness, valence and pragmatic reasoning: Novel challenges for the Semantics/Pragmatics-Interface. Invited talk, 13.4.2022. Discourse in Philosophy Colloquium, ILLC, Amsterdam.
Gotzner, N. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure in implicature computation. Invited talk, 9.8.-13.8.2021. ESSLLI Workshop on Rationality and Exhaustification. Utrecht University.
Gotzner, N. & Alexandropoulou, S. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure in implicature computation, 27.4.2021. LACRE Series, Cardiff University.
Gotzner, N. The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives. Invited talk, Bochum Language Colloquium, 28.1.2021, Ruhr University Bochum.
Gotzner, N. The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives. Invited talk, Semantics Colloquium, 3.12.2020, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Gotzner, N. Adjectival meaning and exhaustivity. Invited talk, QUDs and exhaustivity: experiments, computation, and theory. 25.9.-26.9.2020, University of Graz.
Gotzner, N. 12.5.2020, The use and interpretation of gradable adjectives, Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, 26.6.2020, University of Potsdam.
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. The interpretation of negated adjectives: Dissociating polarity from face-threatening potential. Linglunch Colloquium at Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle. 12.5.2020, Paris.
Gotzner, N. Probing the role of focus in implicature computation. Invited talk, 26.11.2019, UCL, London.
Gotzner, N. Experimenting with focus and alternatives. Invited research seminar, 24.11.2019, Ulster University, Belfast.
Gotzner, N. Experimenting with focus and alternatives. Invited talk, 14.10.2019, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. Invited talk at Logical Words, 16.1.-17.1.2019, Geneva.
Gotzner, N. The semantic and pragmatic function of focal pitch accents in German and English. Invited key note at Proslang: Processing prosody across Languages and Varieties, 29.-30.11.2018, University of Wellington.
Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. Free choice and theories of implicature. 23.11.2018, University of Nantes, Nantes.
Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. Free choice and theories of implicature. 22.11.2018, ENS, Paris.
Gotzner, N. The role of prosody in pragmatic processing. Invited talk. Computational Pragmatics workshop, 26.9.-28.9, University of Bochum.
Gotzner, N. Scalar implicature and negative strengthening: What it takes to be happy. 20.03.2018, Cognition and Language Workshop, Stanford University.
Gotzner, N. Alternativen im Diskurs. Invited talk, 12.10.2017, Universität Bielefeld.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. The best response: Speaker rationality in an interactive paradigm. Invited talk. 25.5.-27.5.2017, Workshop on Rationality, Probability and Pragmatics, ZAS Berlin.
Gotzner, N. The role of activated alternatives in inference computation and language acquisition. Invited talk, 14.7.2015, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gotzner, N. Testing the relationship between focus intonation, the activation of alternatives and implicature computation. Invited talk, II Workshop on the Semantics Pragmatic Interface: Implicatures and Presuppositions, 19.3.-20.3.2015, Siena.
Gotzner, N. Exhaustivity and models of implicature computation. Invited talk, 10.12.2014, University of Utrecht.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Implicatures of Complex Sentences: Some Theory and Some Experiments. Research Colloquium Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Invited talk, 08.05.2014, University of Bochum.
Gotzner, N. Establishing alternative sets: Activation and inhibition mechanisms. Invited talk in Stephen Crain’s lab meeting, 07.02.2014, ARC Center for Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney.
2023
Gotzner, N. (2023). Vagueness in language (inauguration lecture). Workshop on the role of loopholes in communication, 29.9.2023-30.9.2023, Osnabrück University.
Gotzner, N. & Scontras, G. (2023). Leave yourself a (negative) loophole: How subjectivity predicts negative strengthening. Workshop on the role of loopholes in communication, 29.9.2023-30.9.2023, Osnabrück University.
Kobrock, K., Ohmer, X., Bruni, E. & Gotzner, N. (2023). Investigating concept communication in a multi-agent framework. Workshop on the role of loopholes in communication, 29.9.2023-30.9.2023, Osnabrück University.
Gotzner, N. & Scontras, G. (2023). Leave yourself a (negative) loophole: How subjectivity predicts negative strengthening. XPRAG X, 20.9.2023-22.9.2023, Paris.
Alexandropoulou, S., and Gotzner, N. (2023). The role of standard in the processing of scalar inferences of adjectives: A web-based visual world eye-tracking study. Pre-registered poster, XPRAG X, 20.9.2023-22.9.2023, Paris.
Lacina, R., Alexandropoulou, S., Ronai, E., and Gotzner, N. (2023). The Priming of Informationally Weaker Alternatives: Antonyms and Negation. Poster, XPRAG X, 20.9.2023-22.9.2023, Paris.
Kobrock, K., Ohmer, X., Bruni, E. & Gotzner, N. (2023). Context demands make an emergent language between artificial agents more efficient. The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG X), 20-22 Sep 2023, Paris, France (poster).
Kobrock, K., Ohmer, X., Bruni, E. & Gotzner, N. (2023). Pragmatics in referential communication. An investigation of concept communication and the role of pragmatics with an emergent communication game. Workshop: Procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes at the 34th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Ljubljana, Slowenia.
Kobrock, K., Solzbacher, J., Gotzner, N. & König, P. (2023). Feeling Good, Approaching the Positive: The Role of Affect and Arousal in the Approach-Avoidance Bias. Doctorate Colloquium, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück.
Lacina, R., Alexandropoulou, S., Ronai, E., and Gotzner, N. (2023). Which alternatives are relevant in scalar implicature processing? A priming study with antonyms and negation. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, July 26 – 29.
Lacina, R., Alexandropoulou, S., Ronai, E., and Gotzner, N. (2023). Priming Scalar Alternatives under Negation and by Antonyms in Lexical Decision. Poster at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, 31.8.-2.9., San Sebastian.
2022
Kobrock, K., Bruni, E. & Gotzner, N. (2022). The role of language and pragmatics in higher-level cognition: Forming abstract concepts in social interaction. International Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Summer School (IICCSSS), Tübingen, Germany.
Lacina, R., Husband, E.M., & Gotzner, N. (2022). The Representation of Focus Alternatives in Pseudoclefts: A Probe Recognition Study. Pre-registration poster to be presented at the 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, September 22 – 23 Pavia, Italy.
Alexandropoulou, S., Herb, M., Discher, H. & Gotzner, N. (2022). Incremental processing of scalar inferences: The role of comparison standards. 22.9.- 23.9.2022. Biennial XPRAG, Pavia.
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. (2022). Global implicatures and QuD: An experimental investigation. 22.9.- 23.9.2022. Biennial XPRAG, Pavia.
Lacina, R., Šimík, R., & Gotzner, N. (2022). “Czech” the Alternatives: A Probe Recognition Study of Focus and Word Order. Poster presented at the 27th Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, September 14 – 16 Prague, Czech Republic.
Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. The Comprehension of Broad Focus: Probing Roothian Alternatives. Poster given at CogSci2022, July 27 - 30, Toronto, Canada.
Mehlhase, F., Gotzner, N. & Herbst, U. More than just words - The use and influence of discourse particles in the negotiation process. International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) Conference, 10.07.-13.7.2022, Ottawa, Canada.
Mehlhase, F., Gotzner, N. & Herbst, U. More than just words - The use and influence of discourse particles in the negotiation process. International conference on group decision and negotiation (GDN), 12.6.-16.6.2022, virtual.
Alexandropoulou, S., Herb, M., Discher, H., Gotzner N. Incremental pragmatic interpretation of gradable adjectives: The role of standards of comparison. Poster/alternate talk given at the SALT32, El Colegio de México, June 8 - 10, Mexico City, Mexico.
Alexandropoulou, S., Herb, M., Discher, H., Gotzner, N. Incremental processing of scalar implicatures of adjectives: The role of lexical semantics. Talk given online at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics (AMGL42), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, May 6-8, 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Lacina, R., Šimík, R., & Gotzner, N. Focus and word order: The representation of alternatives in Czech. Poster presented virtually at the 35th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 24 – 26, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. Probing alternatives to focused VP-constituents: A test of the Roothian approach. Poster presented virtually at the 35th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 24 – 26, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Alexandropoulou, S. & Gotzner, N. Measurement scales and competition between alternatives. Talk given online at the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (workshop on “Change of State Verbs – Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives”), February 23 - 25, Tübingen, Germany.
Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. Alternatives in Broad-scope Focus: Testing Rooth’s Theory on VP-constituents. Talk given online at the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society, February 23 - 25, Tübingen, Germany.
2021
Alexandropoulou, S & Gotzner, N. Negation, polarity and scale structure: Different inferences of gradable adjectives. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.
Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. Implicatures in (non-) monotonic environments. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Children derive some global implicatures, but almost no local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm. 8.10.-10.10.2021. Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Cologne.
Lacina, R., Gotzner, N. & Sturt, P. Alternatives in broad-scope focus: Testing Rooth’s theory on VP-constituents, AMlaP, 6.9.-8.9.2021, Paris.
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Children derive some global implicatures, but almost no local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm (poster), XPRAG Italy, 8.-9.7.2021, University of Turin.
Alexandropoulou, S & Gotzner, N. The measurement mechanism: The role of scale structure in implicature computation, Workshop on Scales, degrees and implicature, 26.5.-28.5.2021, Potsdam University.
Lacina, R. & Gotzner, N. The alternative activation theory: A unified account of the processing of focus and implicatures, Workshop on Scales, degrees and implicature, 26.5.-28.5.2021, Potsdam University.
2020
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic! Empirical investigations in linguistic meaning (ELM), 16.-18.9.2020, UPenn, Philadelphia.
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs (Poster). Empirical investigations in linguistic meaning (ELM), 16.-18.9.2020, UPenn, Philadelphia.
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic! Sensus, 26.-27.9.2020, UMass, Amherst.
Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Where Truth and Optimality Part. Experiments on Implicatures with Epistemic Adverbs. Sensus, 26.-27.9.2020, UMass, Amherst.
Gotzner, N. The dual function of L+H* pitch accents. Glow 43 (virtual), 1.4.-3.4. 2020, Berlin.
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. The interpretation of negated adjectives: Dissociating polarity from face-threatening potential. Workshop on Degree expressions and Polarity Effects. 9.-10.3.2020, ZAS Berlin.
Sun, C., Breheny, R., Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. Diverse mechanisms explain scalar diversity. DGfS workshop on Diversity in Pragmatic Inferences, 5.3.-6.3.2020, Hamburg.
2019
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. XPRAG Italy, 19.9.-20.9.19, Cagliari.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Embedded implicature in comprehension and production (poster). XPRAG Italy, 19.9.-20.9.19, Cagliari.
Jördens, K., Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. The composition of focus alternative sets. Can carpets be an alternative to figs? Sinn und Bedeutung, 4.9.-6.9.2019, Osnabrück.
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening (poster). XPRAG, 19.6.-21.6.19, Edinburgh.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Embedded implicature in comprehension and production (poster). XPRAG, 19.6.-21.6.19, Edinburgh.
Sun, C., Breheny, R., Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. Approaching scalar diversity through RSA with Lexical Uncertainty. XPRAG, 19.6.-21.6.19, Edinburgh.
Gotzner, N., Solt, S. & Benz, A. The interplay of scalar implicature and negative strengthening in different types of gradable adjectives. Workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of gradable adjectives, 23.5.-24.5.2019, Cologne.
Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. Politeness and negative strengthening. Social meaning workshop, 20.3-21.3.19, ZAS, Berlin.
2018
Gotzner, N., Solt, S. & Benz, A. Adjectival scales and three types of implicature. Workshop on scalar diversity, scale structure and free enrichment. 31.10.2018, UCL London.
Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. 31.10.2018, UCL London.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Producing implicature of complex sentences: The case of embedded some, 26.9.-28.9-2018, University of Bochum.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Implicature of complex sentences: a comprehensive study and a model. Workshop 'The pragmatics of quantifiers: implicature and presupposition – experiment and theory'. 06.06.2018 - 07.06.2018, ZAS Berlin.
Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. 17.10.2018, ZAS, Berlin.
Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. SALT, 18.5.-20.5.2018. MIT, Cambridge.
Gotzner, N., Solt, S. & Benz, A. Scalar implicature and negative strengthening in different types of gradable adjectives. SALT, 18.5.-20.5.2018, MIT, Cambridge.
Gotzner, N., Raithel, L. & Benz, A. Communicative efficiency and implicature in multi-party conversation. CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, 15.3.-17.3.2018. Davis.
Gotzner N., & Spalek, K. Speakers’ expectations about upcoming discourse referents: Effects of pitch accents and focus particles. DGFS workshop on Prosody and Referential Structure, 7.3.-9.3.2018.
2017
Benz, A., Bombi, C. & Gotzner, N. Scalar diversity and negative strengthening. Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 7.09.2017-10.09.2017, Potsdam.
Benz, A., Raithel, L. & Gotzner, N. Embedded implicature: What can be left unsaid? (poster). Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 7.09.2017-10.09.2017, Potsdam.
Spalek, K., Gotzner, N. & Bergmann, B. How focus particles affect what we will talk about next. DETEC, 26.06.-27.6.2017, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Benz, A., Raithel, L. & Gotzner, N. Embedded implicature: What can be left unsaid? (poster). XPRAG, 21.06.-23.06.2017, Cologne.
Benz, A. & Nicole Gotzner. The best response paradigm: Testing for the corner of efficiency. 18th Szklarska Poreba Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, 22.03.2017, Szklarska Poręba.
Benz, A., Raithel, L. & Gotzner, N. The Best Response Paradigm: Testing for the corner of efficiency. Bochum Workshop on Computational Pragmatics, 13.03.2017, University of Bochum.
2016
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Embedded Disjunctions and the Best Response Paradigm. Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh.
Gotzner, N. & Romoli, J. Testing theories of alternatives with multiple scalar term sentences (poster). Sinn und Bedeutung 21, Edinburgh.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Embedded disjunctions and the best response paradigm. Disjunction Days: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on disjunction, ZAS Berlin.
Leffel, T., Cremers, A., Romoli, R. & Gotzner, N. 'Not very' Adj: Vagueness and implicature calculation. 2016 LSA Annual Meeting, Washington.
2015
Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. Testing implicatures of complex sentences. 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 02.09.2015 - 05.09.2015, Leiden.
Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. The best response paradigm. A new paradigm to test implicit meaning (poster). AMLaP 2015, University of Malta.
Gotzner, N., Barner, D. & Crain, S. What’s the alternative? How children compute implicatures with different scales (poster). AMLaP 2015, University of Malta.
Gotzner, N. & Romoli, J. Testing theories of alternatives on sentences with multiple scalar terms. XPRAG, 16.7.-18.7.2015, Chicago.
Gotzner, N., Barner, D. & Crain, S. What’s the alternative? How children compute implicatures with different scales (poster). XPRAG, 16.7.-18.7.2015, Chicago.
Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. The best response paradigm. A new paradigm to test implicatures of complex sentences. Annual meeting of Xprag.de, 26.6.-27.6.2015, Göttingen.
Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. The best response paradigm. A new paradigm to test implicatures of complex sentences. Formal and experimental pragmatics: Methodological issues of a nascent liaison, 1.6.-3.6.2015, Berlin.
Gotzner, N., Tomlinson, J. & Spalek, K. The mechanisms underlying different types of (exhaustive) inferences (poster). CUNY 2015, UCLA.
2014
Gotzner, N. What’s included in the set of alternatives? Psycholinguistic evidence for a permissive view. Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Göttingen.
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. Alternative sets in language processing: The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition. Poster at AMLaP 2014, Edinburgh.
Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. Exhaustive inferences and additive presuppositions: Interplay of focus operators and contrastive intonation. Formal and Experimental Pragmatics Workshop at European Summer School for Language, Logic and Information (ESSLLI) 2014, Tübingen.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the truth value judgement paradigm. Formal and Experimental Pragmatics Workshop at European Summer School for Language, Logic and Information (ESSLLI) 2014, Tübingen.
Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the truth-value judgment paradigm. 15th Sklarska Poreba Worskshop, Sklarska Poreba.
2013
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. Only the son of a preacher man? How focus particles and pitch accents affect the retrieval of alternatives. AMLaP 2013, Marseille.
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. Focus particles and the mental representation of alternative sets. XPRAG, Utrecht.
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. How pitch accents and focus particles affect the recognition of contextual alternatives (poster). Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2013, Berlin.
Spalek, K., Gotzner, N. & Wartenburger, I. How focus particles create discourse expectations for focus alternatives. DETEC Conference 2013, Tübingen.
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. The cognitive reality of alternative sets how focus-sensitive particles hamper the recognition of contrastive alternatives (poster). International Conference on Linguistic Evidence - Berlin special Meeting 2013, Berlin.
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. How focus particle like only hamper the rejection of contrastive alternatives (poster), 26th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, SC.
2012
Gotzner, N., Spalek, K. & Wartenburger, I. Focus particles enhance memory for focus alternatives (poster). AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda.
Solt, S.& Gotzner, N. Experimenting with Degree. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 2012, Chicago.
Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. Experimental investigations into the nature of degree,19.04.2012, Ruhr Universitat Bochum.
Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. Who here is tall? Comparison classes, standards and scales. Linguistic Evidence 2012, 09.02.2012 - 11.02.2012, Tübingen.
Leahy, B. & Gotzner, N. Antipresuppositions and the Projection of Conditional Presuppositions. Poster presented at Theoretical Pragmatics (TPrag) 2012, Berlin.
2009-2011
Gotzner, N. The interpretation of vague predicates - experimental insights. LogICCC Final Conference, 15.09.2011 - 18.09.2011, Berlin.
Gotzner, N. Color terms and color perception. Sklarska Poreba Workshop on Ambiguity, Sklarska Poreba. Gotzner, N. Do linguistic categories affect color perception? CogLang Conference 2011, Lodz.
Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. An experimental investigation of vague predicates. 2nd VAAG Workshop, 27.04.2010 - 30.04.2010, Dubrovnik.
Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. Expensive, not expensive or cheap? An experimental study on vague predicates. Sklarska Poreba Workshop on Experimental Pragmasematics, 11.03.2010 - 15.03.2010, Sklarska Poreba.
Krifka, M., Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. Update on Basque experiments. VAAG Workshop, 07.2009, Berlin.