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Complete lists of publications and talks are available on the personal website of Prof. Dr. Nicole Gotzner. Please also check the personal websites of our group members.

Monograph

Gotzner, N. (2017). Alternative sets in language processing: How focus alternatives are represented in the mind. Palgrave studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Edited volumes

Gotzner, N., Harris, J., Breheny, R. & Sharvit, Y. (under contract). Alternatives: Theoretical and empirical perspectives. Palgrave studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Gotzner, N. & Sauerland, U. (2022). Measurements, numerals, and scales: Essays in honor of Stephanie Solt. Palgrave studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan.

Papers by year

2024 and accepted

Gotzner, N. & Lacina, R., (accepted). Generating and selecting alternatives for scalar implicature computation: The Alternative Activation Account and other theories. Accepted for publication as a book chapter in Alternatives: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. 

Lacina, R., Sturt, P., & Gotzner, N. (accepted). The comprehension of broad focus: Probing alternatives to verb phrases. Accepted for publication as a book chapter in the series Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface. Language Science Press.

Lacina, R. & Gotzner, N. (accepted). Exploring scalar diversity through priming: A lexical decision study with adjectives. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

Kobrock, K., Uhlemann, C. & Gotzner, N. (accepted). Superordinate referring expressions in abstraction: Introducing the concept-level reference game. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

Kobrock, K., Ohmer, X., Bruni, E. & Gotzner, N. (accepted). Context Shapes Emergent Communication about Concepts at Different Levels of Abstraction. Coling. 

Alexandropoulou, S.* & Gotzner, N.* (accepted). Negation, polarity and scale structure: Different inferences of gradable adjectives. Journal of Semantics

Alexandropoulou, S. & Gotzner, N. (accepted). Gradable adjective interpretation under negation: The role of competition. Glossa.

Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. (2024). Negative strengthening: Interplay of evaluative polarity and scale structure. Journal of Semantics. 

Gotzner, N. & Scontras, G. (2024). On the Role of Loopholes in Polite Communication: Linking Subjectivity and Pragmatic Inference. Open Mind, 8, 500–510. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00133

2023

Korsheed, A. & Gotzner, N. (2023). A closer look at variability in scalar implicature processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1187970.

Lacina, R., Šimík, R., & Gotzner, N. (2023). 'Czech' the Alternatives: A Probe Recognition Study of Focus and Word Order. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 27, 365–380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2023.v27.1075.

2022

Gotzner, N. & Sauerland, U. (2022). Measurement, numerals and scales. Palgrave studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan. Gotzner, N. & Romoli, J. (2022). Meaning and alternatives. Invited review for Annual Reviews in Linguistics.

Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. (2022). Expectations about upcoming discourse referents: Effects of pitch accents and focus particles in German language production. International Review of Pragmatics, 14, 77-94.

Gotzner, N. (2022). Voll Krifka! Intensification, modification and commitment. In Repp, S. & Trinh, T. (eds.): For Manfred from his Students. 27-36, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.

Gotzner, N. & Kiziltan, S. (2022). She is brilliant! Distinguishing different readings of relative gradable adjectives. Gotzner, N. and Sauerland, U. (ed.): Measurement, numerals and scales.

Alexandropoulou, S., Herb, M, Discher, H. & Gotzner, N. (2022). Incremental pragmatic interpretation of gradable adjectives: The role of standards of comparison. In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 32.

Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. (2022). Implicatures in (non-) monotonic environments. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB), 26.

Alexandropoulou, S.* &  Gotzner, N.* (to appear). Negation, polarity & scale structure: Different inferences of gradable adjectives. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB), 26.

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. (2022). Romanian 5-year-olds derive global but not local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB), 26.

2021

Bleotu, C., Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. (2021). Shadow Playing with Romanian 5-Year-Olds. Epistemic Adverbs Are a Kind of Magic!. Proceedings of Empirical investigations in linguistic meaning (ELM), 59-70, DOI: doi.org/10.3765/elm.1.4866.

Gotzner, N. (2021). Experimentelle Pragmatik. Festschrift: 25 Jahre GWZ.

Gotzner, N. & Mazzarella, D. (2021). Face management and negative strengthening: The role of power relations, social distance and gender. Frontiers in Psychology, Experimental approaches to Pragmatics. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602977.

Mazzarella, D. & Gotzner, N. (2021). The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: Dissociating adjectival polarity from face-threatening potential. Glossa. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6 (1), 47. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1342. OSF repository: osf.io/q3g2n/.

Benz, A.* & Gotzner, N.* (2020). Embedded implicature: What can be left unsaid? Linguistics & Philosophy. doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09310-x. 

2020

Jördens, K., Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. (2020). The role of non-categorical relations in establishing focus alternative sets. Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.21.

Gotzner, N., Barner, D. & Crain, S. (2020). Disjunction triggers exhaustivity implicatures in 4- to 5-year-olds. Journal of Semantics, 37, 219-245.

Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. (2020). Choices, prohibition, and non-monotonic environments. Natural Language Semantics. doi.org/10.1007/s11050-019-09160-9

2019

Gotzner, N. (2019). Disjunction, conjunction and exhaustivity. Making and Meaning: A Festschrift for Uli Sauerland, Snippets, 35-37.

Benz, A.* & Gotzner, N.* (2019) Irgendein quantifier and local implicature. Making and Meaning: A Festschrift for Uli Sauerland, Snippets, 10-13.

Gotzner, N. (2019). The role of focus intonation in implicature computation: A comparison with only and also. Natural Language Semantics.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-019-09154-7.

Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. (2019). The life and times of focus alternatives: Tracing the activation of alternatives to a focused constituent in language comprehension. Language and Linguistics Compass, 13 (2), e12310. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12310.

Leffel, T., Cremers, A., Gotzner, N. & Romoli, J. (2019). Vagueness in implicature: The case of modified adjectives. Journal of Semantics, ffy020, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffy020.

2018

Gotzner, N., Solt, S. & Benz, A., (2018). The interplay of scalar implicature and negative strengthening in different types of gradable adjectives. Frontiers Research Topic Scalar Implicatures. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01659. OSF repository: osf.io/eb2hk/.

Gotzner, N. & Benz, A. (2018). The best response paradigm and a comparison of different models of implicatures of complex sentences. Frontiers in Communication, 2 (21). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2017.00021.

Gotzner, N. & Romoli, J. (2018). The scalar inferences of strong scalar terms under negative quantifiers and constraints on the theory of alternatives. Journal of Semantics, 35 (1), 95-126.

Gotzner, N., Romoli, J. & Santorio, P. (2018). More free choice and more inclusion: An experimental investigation of free choice in non-monotonic environments. Proceedings of SALT 28, 1-18. MIT, Boston, MA.

Gotzner, N., Solt, S. & Benz, A.  (2018). Adjectival scales and three types of implicature. Proceedings of SALT 28, 409-423. MIT, Boston, MA.

Benz, A.,* Gotzner, N.* & Raithel, L. (2018). The Interactive Best Response Paradigm. U. Sauerland and S. Solt (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 22, 205-221. ZAS, Berlin. 

Benz, A., Bombi, C. & Gotzner, N. (2018). Scalar diversity and negative strengthening. U. Sauerland and S. Solt (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 22, 192-203. ZAS, Berlin.

2017

Gotzner, N. (2017). Alternative sets in language processing: How alternatives are represented in the mind. Palgrave studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, Palgrave Macmillan.

Tomlinson, J. M., Gotzner, N. & Bott, L. (2017). Intonation and pragmatic enrichment: How intonation constrains ad-hoc scalar inferences. Language and Speech: Special Issue on Intonation and Pragmatic Inferences, 60, 200-223.

Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. (2017). The connection between focus and implicatures: Investigating alternative activation under working memory load. In F. Domaneschi & Pistoia-Reda, S. (Eds.) Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions. Palgrave Macmillan.

Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. (2017). Embedded Disjunctions and the Best Response Paradigm. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 21, Edinburgh. 

2016

Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. (2016). The role of contrastive and non-contrastive associates in the interpretation of focus particles. Discourse Processes, 8 (1), 59-95. 

Gotzner, N., Wartenburger, I. & Spalek, K. (2016). The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives. Language and Cognition, 8, 59-95. 

2015-2012

Gotzner, N. (2015). What’s included in the set of alternatives? Psycholinguistic evidence for a permissive view. In: Csipak, E. & Zeijlstra, H. (ed.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 19, 232-247, Göttingen.

Spalek, K.,* Gotzner, N.* & Wartenburger, I. (2014). Not only the apples. Focus-sensitive particles improve memory for information-structural alternatives. Journal of Memory and Language, 70, 68-84. 

Sauerland, U. & Gotzner N. (2013). Familial sinistrals avoid exact numbers. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59103. 

Gotzner, N. (2012). The role of language in color categorical perception. In Kosecki, K. & Badio, J. (eds.) Cognitive Processes in Language. Lodz Studies in Language, 25, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Gotzner, N. & Spalek, K. (2014). Exhaustive inferences and additive presuppositions: Interplay of focus operators and contrastive intonation. In J. Degen, M. Franke, and N. Goodman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop, 7-13, Tübingen.

Benz, A. & Gotzner, N. (2014). Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the truth value judgement paradigm. In J. Degen, M. Franke, and N. Goodman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop, 1-6, Tübingen.

Gotzner, N., Spalek, K., Wartenburger, I. (2013). How pitch accents and focus particles affect the recognition of contextual alternatives. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, and I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2434-2440. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2013.

Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. (2012). Experimenting with degree. In Anca Chereches (Ed.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), 22, 166-187. Ithaca, New York.

Solt, S. & Gotzner, N. (2012). Who here is tall? Comparison classes, standards and scales. In SFB 833, Pre-Proceedings of the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2012, 79-83. Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls-Universität.