The impact of implicit scalar alternatives on the products of language comprehension: Evidence from recognition memory
Memory & Cognition, 54, 2082–2112.
Publications
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2026
Relating word prediction and probability judgment: Online and offline probabilistic processes are partially shared
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 48, 2798–2805.
Prior and new knowledge in language comprehension: Referent lifetime status versus biographical accomplishments
Acta Psychologica, 265, 106579.
Grammatical constraints on focus alternatives? The case of gender in Czech
Linguistica Brunensia, 74(1), 20–61.
Discourse expectations are sensitive to the Right Frontier Constraint
Discourse Processes, 1–13.
An incremental QUD approach to causal discourse expectations
Acta Psychologica, 270, 107670.
2025
Informational sources and discourse in the generation and maintenance of alternatives
Alternatives: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.
Illicit syntactic representations in garden-path reanalysis: More evidence from reflexives
38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
2024
Unpacking additivity biases reveal the class of sampling algorithm for word predictability
37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
Topichood and temporal interpretation of DPs guide clause-internal, causal coherence
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 28, 1034–1048.
2023
Thematic separation in light of sentence comprehension
Language and Linguistics Compass, 17(4), e12496.
Structural prediction during language comprehension revealed by electrophysiology: Evidence from Italian auxiliaries
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(1), 116–129.
2022
The syntax of generics and the absence of generic articles
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 7, 5213.
Prediction in the maze: Evidence for probabilistic pre-activation from the English a/an contrast
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1(1).
Nothing much for kinds
For Hagit: A celebration, 47.
Investigating shared and distinct mechanisms in semantic and syntactic enrichment: A priming study
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37(8), 1062–1072.
2021
Do Scalar Implicatures Prime? The Case of Exclusive 'or'
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 2149–2155.
2020
Prediction of phonological and gender information: An event-related potential study in Italian
Neuropsychologia, 136, 107291.
Prediction failure blocks the use of local semantic context
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(3), 273–291.
Dissociable effects of prediction and integration during language comprehension: Evidence from a large-scale study using brain potentials
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1791).
2019
Event (de)composition
Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, 62–82. Oxford University Press.
2018
Speaking of death
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1754).
Large-scale replication study reveals a limit on probabilistic prediction in language comprehension
eLife, 7, e33468.
Eye movement evidence for context-sensitive derivation of scalar inferences
Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 3.
Contradictory (forward) lifetime effects and the non-future tense in Mandarin Chinese
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 3, 6:1–14.
Comprehending anaphoric presuppositions requires memory retrieval too
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 3, 44:1–11.
2017
How robust are effects of semantic and phonological prediction during language comprehension? A visual world eye-tracking study
Proceedings of the Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language.
2016
Indexicals in shifty contexts: Problems for language acquisition
Proceedings of the Boston University Child Language Development, 40, 429–442. Cascadilla Press.
2015
The role of selection in the comprehension of focus alternatives
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(2), 217–235.
The inventory of functional categories and conditions on the possibility of experience
Handout.
Self-repairs as right node raising constructions
Lingua, 160, 20–37.
Misinterpretations in agreement and agreement attraction
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(5), 950–971.
2014
Processing (the) events: Lexical and structural ingredients of inner aspect
Connectedness: Papers by and for Sarah VanWagenen, 18, 275–291.
Building aspectual interpretations online
Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing, 157–186. Springer.
A subclinical study of the cognitive resources underlying scalar implicature: A focus on scalar adjectives
Connectedness: Papers by and for Sarah VanWagenen, 18, 189–211.
2012
Stages of individuals and the composition of states
The Linguistic Review, 29(3), 375–395.
Some structural analogies between existential interpretation and telicity
The End of Argument Structure?: Syntax and Semantics 38, 38, 105–129.
On the Compositional Nature of States
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 188. John Benjamins.
2011
Using complement coercion to understand the neural basis of semantic composition: Evidence from an fMRI study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(11), 3254–3266.
Severing scale structure from the adjective
LSA Extended Abstracts.
Rescuing manner/result complementarity from certain death
Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 47, 111–124.
2010
The online composition of events
Queen Mary's Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics, 19.
On the Compositional Nature of Stativity
Doctoral dissertation, Michigan State University.
Compositional states
Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 20, 76–90.