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In my PhD project I work on logical and pragmatic competence in natural language reasoning. I
conduct EEG experiments on processing of pragmatic and semantic inferences
in language.
I
also
try to
provide some formal modeling of the investigated phenomena. The funding from the
Research School
Plus
enabled me to take part in many international conferences in the period between June and
September 2013.
In days 3
-
6 September 2013 I participated
in the conference on
Experimental
Pragmatics
(XPRAG) in Utrecht. I gave a poster presentation on
my recent ERP study on the
processing of the scalar implicature.
The X
-
PRAG conference on experimental pragmatics is a biennial
event that aims
at fostering interaction between linguistic, psychological, and philosophical approaches
to utterance interpretation. It is organized by the EURO
-
XPRAG Network that aims to support
experimental pragmatic research through collaborations, workshops and conferences in order
to
provide leadership for this field worldwide.
The
general
scope of the conference was highly relevant
for the topic of my doctorate project. I attended
many interesting talks, and
the poster session was very
rich. It was
an
especially great surprise for
me that there were plenty posters on the topic of scalar
implicatures,
providing important and relevant data for my own research. I got great feedback on my
experiment and learned about what has been
recently
done in this field by other People. |