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Career

· Associate Professor in Linguistics, Stanford University2024–
· Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Stanford University2017–2024
· Research fellow, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)2016–2017
· Visiting researcher, Google Inc.2016–
· Postdoctoral scholar in Psychology, Stanford University2013–2017
· Ph.D., Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Linguistics (joint degree), University of Rochester2013–
· M.Sc., Cognitive Science, Foci: Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Osnabrück2008–
· B.Sc., Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück2006–

Publications (88)

Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint-Based Approach
Cognitive Sciences · 2015
211
cited
Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study
Cognitive Sciences · 2016
102
cited
Investigating the distribution of some (but not all ) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods
2015
90
cited
When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to "overinformative" referring expressions.
Psychology Review · 2019
90
cited
Subjectivity Predicts Adjective Ordering Preferences
Open Mind · 2017
80
cited
Making Inferences: The Case of Scalar Implicature Processing
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2011
71
cited
The Rational Speech Act Framework
Annual Review of Linguistics · 2022
67
cited
How Projective is Projective Content? Gradience in Projectivity and At-issueness
Journal of Semantics · 2018
66
cited
Reasoning in Reference Games: Individual- vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling
PLoS ONE · 2016
57
cited
Talker-specificity and adaptation in quantifier interpretation.
Journal of Memory and Language · 2016
55
cited
Wonky worlds: Listeners revise world knowledge when utterances are odd
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2015
48
cited
Cost-Based Pragmatic Inference about Referential Expressions
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2013
47
cited
Lost your marbles? The puzzle of dependent measures in experimental pragmatics
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2014
47
cited
An Information-Theoretic Explanation of Adjective Ordering Preferences
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2018
44
cited
Why do you ask? Good questions provoke informative answers
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2015
42
cited
I know what you're probably going to say: Listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions
Cognition · 2019
40
cited
Modeling word and morpheme order in natural language as an efficient trade-off of memory and surprisal.
Psychology Review · 2020
38
cited
Are there factive predicates? An empirical investigation
Language · 2022
36
cited
Harnessing the linguistic signal to predict scalar inferences
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2019
36
cited
Animal, dog, or dalmatian? Level of abstraction in nominal referring expressions
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2016
35
cited
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