Alexandre Cremers

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

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• Cremers, A., Wilcox, E., and Spector, B. (2022c). Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs. (Accepted with minor revisions in Cognitive Science)

• Cremers, A., Fricke, L., and Onea, E. (2022b). The importance of being earnest: How truth and evidence affect statement acceptability. To appear in Glossa Psycholinguistics

• Cremers, A., Coppock, L., Dotlačil, J., and Roelofsen, F. (2022a). Ignorance implicatures of modified numerals. Linguistics and Philosophy, 45(3):683–740

• Cremers, A., Roelofsen, F., and Uegaki, W. (2019). Distributive ignorance inferences. Semantics & Pragmatics, 12(5):1–60

• Leffel, T., Cremers, A., Romoli, J., and Gotzner, N. (2019). Vagueness in implicature: The case of modified adjectives. Journal of Semantics

• Cremers, A., Kane, F., Tieu, L., Kennedy, L., Sudo, Y., Folli, R., and Romoli, J. (2018). Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1)

• Cremers, A. (2018). Plurality effects in an exhaustification-based theory of embedded questions. Natural Language Semantics, 26(3):193–251

• Cremers, A., Tieu, L., and Chemla, E. (2017). Children’s exhaustive readings of questions. Language Acquisition, 24(4):343–360

• Tieu, L., Yatsushiro, K., Cremers, A., Romoli, J., Sauerland, U., and Chemla, E. (2017). On the role of alternatives in the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in french and japanese. Journal of Semantics, 34(1):127

• Cremers, A. and Chemla, E. (2017). Experiments on the acceptability and possible readings of questions embedded under emotive-factives. Natural Language Semantics, 25(3):223–261

• Cremers, A. and Chemla, E. (2016). A psycholinguistic study of the exhaustive readings of embedded questions. Journal of Semantics, 33(1):49–85

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Articles in conference materials

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• Cremers, A. (2022b). A rational speech-act model for the pragmatic use of vague terms in natural language. In Culbertson, J., Perfors, A., Rabagliati, H., and Ramenzoni, V., editors, Proceedings of CogSci 44, pages 149–155

• Cremers, A. (2022a). Interpreting gradable adjectives: rational reasoning or simple heuristics? In Bîlbîie, G., Crysmann, B., and Schaden, G., editors, Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics 14. to appear

• van Gessel, T. and Cremers, A. (2021). Testing the distribution of pair-list questions. In Grosz, P. G., Martí, L., Pearson, H., Sudo, Y., and Zobel, S., editors, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, pages 841–855. University College London and Queen Mary University of London

• McHugh, D. and Cremers, A. (2019). Negation and alternatives in conditional antecedents. In Schlöder, J. J., McHugh, D., and Roelofsen, F., editors, Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pages 289–298

• Zhao, Z. and Cremers, A. (2019). Testing formal pragmatics of questions through their ignorance inferences. In Schlöder, J. J., McHugh, D., and Roelofsen, F., editors, Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pages 91–100

• van Gessel, T., Cremers, A., and Roelofsen, F. (2018). Polarity sensitivity of question embedding: experimental evidence. In Semantics and Linguistic Theory, volume 28, pages 217–232

• Xiang, Y. and Cremers, A. (2017). Mention-some readings of plural-marked questions. In Lamont, A. and Tetzloff, K. A., editors, Proceedings of NELS 47

• Breakstone, M. Y., Cremers, A., Fox, D., and Hackl, M. (2012). On the analysis of scope ambiguities in comparative constructions: Converging evidence from real-time sentence processing and offline data. In Proceedings of SALT, volume 21, pages 712–731

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Articles in edited volumes

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• Cremers, A., Križ, M., and Chemla, E. (2016). Probability judgments of gappy sentences. In Pistoia-Reda, S. and Domaneschi, F., editors, Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions. Springer

• Cremers, A. and Chemla, E. (2014). Direct and indirect scalar implicatures share the same processing signature. In Reda, S. P., editor, Semantics, Pragmatics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures. Palgrave Macmillan

RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

Projects

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• Efficient communication under uncertainty: Vagueness and Implicatures (Postdoctoral project 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0190) 2020-2022.

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Invited papers and lectures

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• Lab meeting, UPenn. Comparison classes and the Absolute/Relative distinction in Gradable adjectives

• SURGE, Rutgers. Comparison classes and the Absolute/Relative distinction in Gradable adjectives

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Recent participation in conferences

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• SuB 27, Prague. “Putting plural definites into context.”, with P. Augurzky, M. Bonnet, R. Breheny, C. Ebert, J. Romoli, M. Steinbach, C. Mayr & Y. Sudo

• SuB 27, Prague. “A Rational Speech-Act model for the pragmatic use of vague terms”

• CogSci 44, Toronto. “A Rational Speech-Act model for the pragmatic use of vague terms in natural language”

• ELM2, Upenn. “RSA-SvI: A theoretically motivated model of the interaction between vagueness and implicatures”

• CSSP 2021, Université de Paris.  “Comparison classes and the Absolute/Relative distinction in Gradable adjectives”

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Other activities

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• Supervision of MA students: Julija Kalvelytė

• Organization of the Arqus Twinnings seminar “Methodology questions in Experimental linguistics” with Edgar Onea and Lea Fricke (University of Graz)

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Review and evaluation activities

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• Occasional reviewer for: Cognition, Cognitive Science, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Semantics, Linguistic Inquiry, Language Acquisition, Frontiers Psychology, Frontiers Language, Frontiers Communication, Journal of Pragmatics, Semantics & Pragmatics, Natural Language Semantics, Philosophical Psychology, Applied Psycholinguistics, Glossa, Glossa Psycholinguistics, Language Development Research, Memory & Cognition.

• Project evaluation for the Polish National Research Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki)