Linguistic communication requires interlocutors to consider differences in each other's
knowledge (perspective-taking). However, perspective-taking might either be spontaneous …

The notions of inference and implicature are central to pragmatics, so much so that they can
be used to define the pragmatic enterprise itself. Meaning which does not come from the …

This paper investigates the cognitive mechanisms supporting humans' interpretation of
requests for information. Learners can only search for a piece of information if they know that …

This article addresses a current theoretical debate between modular and interactive
accounts of sarcasm processing, by investigating the role of context (specifically, knowing …

This dissertation investigates the role of Focus-sensitivity for a typology of presupposition
triggers. The central hypothesis is that Focus-sensitive triggers require a linguistic …

Discovering the meaning of novel communicative cues is challenging and amounts to
navigating an unbounded hypothesis space. Several theories posit that this problem can be …

Informativeness (defined as reduction of uncertainty) is central in human communication. In
the present study, we investigate baboons' sensitivity to informativeness by manipulating the …

This paper examines the topic of reference from the perspective of the production and
comprehension of definite descriptions. We begin by reviewing evidence that the processes …

The paper presents a manually annotated corpus of Polish quantificational expressions. The
quantifier annotation was conducted on top of existing gold-standard data for Polish as its …

The aim of the present study was to explore neuronal oscillatory activity during a task of
irony understanding. In this task, we manipulated implicit information about the speaker such …