Presentations
My recent presentations are shown below, and PDF versions of most of them are hosted here. I hope they are fairly self-explanatory, but if any clarification is required please get in touch (c.r.cummins AT gmail.com).
Is too much information too much trouble? Invited talk at Workshop on Conversational Implictures, Radboud University Nijmegen, January 2012. (PDF)
Can priming account for implicature failure? Invited talk in SFB 673 colloquium series, Universität Bielefeld, October 2011. (PDF)
Are presuppositions accommodated globally by default? (With Richard Breheny, Emmanuel Chemla, Bart Geurts and Napoleon Katsos.) Oral presentation at Euro-XPrag workshop, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, October 2011. (PDF)
The preference for approximation. (With Stephanie Solt and Marijan Palmović.) Oral presentation at Euro-XPrag Workshop, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, September 2011.
Constraints on quantifiers. Oral presentation at ESSLLI 2011, Workshop on the Proper Use of Quantification in Ordinary Language (PUQOL), Ljubljana, August 2011. (PDF)
Experimental evidence on the distinction between foregrounded and backgrounded meaning. (With Patrícia Amaral and Napoleon Katsos.) Oral presentation at ESSLLI 2011, Workshop on Projective Content, Ljubljana, August 2011. (PDF)
Implicatures and modified numerals. (With Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt.) Oral presentation at XPrag 2011, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona. (PDF)
Backgrounding through presupposition. (With Patrícia Amaral.) Poster at XPrag 2011, UPF, Barcelona, June 2011.
Implicatures from deficient scales. Oral presentation at Semantics and Pragmatics Cluster Workshop, University of Cambridge, May 2011. (PDF)
Recovering some, if not all, of the speaker's meaning. Invited talk at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, April 2011. (PDF)
The interaction of contextual and linguistic factors in the selection of quantified expressions. Oral presentation at Meaning, Context and Cognition (MCC 2011), University of Lodz, Poland, March 2011. (PDF)
What is the speaker's context when selecting numerically-quantified expressions? (With Napoleon Katsos.) Invited talk at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the DGfS, working group What is a context?, Göttingen, February 2011. (PDF)
Modelling the pragmatic effects of approximation. Oral presentation at Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers (VQ2), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, December 2010. (PDF)
A constraint-based approach to the meaning and use of quantified expressions. (With Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt.) Oral presentation at Euro-Xprag workshop, Leuven, June 2010. (PDF)
Drawing and cancelling granularity-based inferences. Oral presentation at Looking at Language Acquisition (LALA-XI) meeting, RCEAL, University of Cambridge, May 2010. (PDF)
Using epistemic state in drawing scalar inferences. (With Napoleon Katsos.) Oral presentation at PsyLingSE meeting, UCL, London, March 2010. (PDF)
Constraints on numerically-quantified expressions. Invited talk, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, December 2009. (PDF)
Pragmatic interpretation and use of numerically-quantified expressions. Invited talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, November 2009. (PDF)
Processing costs of strict versus non-strict comparison. University of Cambridge Linguistics PhD seminar, October 2009. (PDF)
The semantics and pragmatics of numerically-quantified expressions. RCEAL Tuesday Colloquium, RCEAL, University of Cambridge, October 2009. (PDF)
Numerically quantified expressions. (With Napoleon Katsos.) Oral presentation at XPrag 2009, Lyon, April 2009. (PDF)
Scrambled word recognition: Implications for position coding. Poster presentation at AMLaP 2008, Cambridge, September 2008. (PDF)