The theory of Intonational Compliance Marking (ICM) maintains that speakers of English use
final rising intonation to indicate a suspension (potential violation) of a conversational maxim …

This paper investigates the meaning of intonational contours by experimentally testing how
they affect the likelihood of scalar inference (SI) calculation. Our main test case is the rise-fall …

This paper presents three auditory rating experiments on the rise-fall-rise contour (RFR).
Experiment 1 provides experimental evidence that the RFR makes disagreeing with a prior …

Hurford disjunctions are disjunctions where one disjunct entails another. Some of these are
perfectly natural while others seem infelicitous, at least out of context. The predominant …

Direct and indirect characterizations of the relation between clause type (syntactic form) and
speech act (pragmatic function) are problematic because they map oversimplified forms onto …

Recent research has highlighted that lexical scales vary in their likelihood of giving rise to a
scalar inference—a finding labeled scalar diversity. The current paper examines the role of …

The neo-Gricean approach to exhaustivity is based on the idea that exhaustivity arises when
relevant propositions are not asserted. This paper presents a new pragmatic approach …

We introduce a novel, scalable method aimed at annotating potential and actual Questions
Under Discussion (QUDs) in naturalistic discourse. It consists of asking naive participants …

In this paper I look at contrast within the model of information-structure annotation proposed
by Riester, Brunetti, and De Kuthy (2018), Riester (2019), Brunetti, De Kuthy, and Riester …

Segmentation is a cornerstone of language processing across levels of linguistic analysis,
and yet, standard models of linguistic memory leave the role of higher-order segments in …