Presentations (* = equal contribution; † = Northwestern student)
2024
Thomas Sostarics†, Eszter Ronai & Jennifer Cole. Relating Scalar Inference and Alternative Activation: A view from the Rise-Fall-Rise Tune in American English. Talk at ELM 3.
Eszter Ronai. Embedded scalar diversity. Poster at SALT 34.
Wesley Orth*†, Dávid Nemeskey & Eszter Ronai*. Hungarian relative clause processing: Diverging results in L-maze and A-Maze. Talk at HSP 37.
Cassie Davenport† & Eszter Ronai. How many Selves are Bound? Distributivity and Number Effects in Bound Reflexives. Poster at HSP 37.
2023
Eszter Ronai* & Wesley Orth*†. HuMaze – Testing Hungarian relative clause processing in the Maze-task. Talk at the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop. [slides]
Thomas Sostarics†, Eszter Ronai & Jennifer Cole. Scalar Inference and Rise-Fall-Rise in
American English: Towards a Priming Perspective. Talk at Voices in Context. [slides]
Radim Lacina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Eszter Ronai & Nicole Gotzner. The Priming of
Informationally Weaker Alternatives: Antonyms and Negation. Poster at XPrag 10. [poster]
Radim Lacina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Eszter Ronai & Nicole Gotzner. Priming Scalar
Alternatives under Negation and by Antonyms in Lexical Decision. Poster at AMLaP 29. [poster]
Radim Lacina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Eszter Ronai & Nicole Gotzner. Which alternatives are relevant in scalar implicature processing? A priming study with antonyms and negation. Poster at CogSci 45. [slides]
Alexander Göbel* & Eszter Ronai*. On the meaning of intonational contours: a view from scalar inference. Poster at SALT 33. [poster]
Helena Aparicio* & Eszter Ronai*. Scalar implicature rates vary within and across adjectival scales. Poster at SALT 33. [poster]
Eszter Ronai* & Alexander Göbel*. Intonation affects rate of scalar inferences: production and perception data from English. Poster at HSP 36. [poster]
Lucas Fagen* & Eszter Ronai*. Testing variation across exclusive modifiers. Talk at LSA 97. [slides]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Degree estimates as a measure of inference calculation. Talk at LSA 97. [slides]
2022
Eszter Ronai* & Lucas Fagen*. Exclusives vary in strength and scale structure: experimental evidence. Poster at Amsterdam Colloquium 23. [poster]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming. Short talk at ELM 2. [slides]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Degree estimates predict likelihood of scalar inference. Talk at LSA 96. [see SuB proceedings]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Overt exhaustification, but not discourse context, reduces scalar diversity. Talk at LSA 96. [see LSA proceedings]
2021
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Three factors in explaining scalar diversity. Talk at SuB 26. [slides] [recording]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Quantifying scalar diversity: a first look. Talk at AMLaP 27. [slides] [recording]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Scalar diversity in discourse contexts. Poster at XPRAG.it 4. [poster]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Exploring the connection between Question Under Discussion and scalar diversity. Talk at LSA 95. [slides]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Licensing of nominal ellipsis in Hungarian possessives. Talk at LSA 95. [slides]
2020
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Question availability as a predictor of scalar diversity. Poster at AMLaP 26. [poster]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Variation in the size of nominal ellipsis in Hungarian: evidence from nouns and pronouns. Talk at SICOGG 22. [slides]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Interpretation cannot determine the source of multiple sluicing in Hungarian. Talk at ECBAE 3. [slides]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Accounting for syntactic complexity in Hungarian relative clauses. Poster at CUNY 33. [poster]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Is multiple fronting necessary for multiple sluicing? The view from Hungarian. Talk at WCCFL 38. [slides]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Interpreting multiple sluicing: Experimental evidence from Hungarian. Talk at TLS 19. [slides]
2019
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Clausal ellipsis has an isomorphic source: Evidence from Hungarian adjectival sluicing. Talk at LAGB 2019. *Best Student Abstract Award* [handout]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. The interplay of memory and expectation in Hungarian relative clause processing. Talk at LAGB 2019. [superseded by CUNY 33 poster]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Sluicing and pseudosluicing in Hungarian. Talk at CLS 55. [handout]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Relative clause processing in a flexible word order language: Evidence from Hungarian. Poster at CUNY 32. *Student Travel Award* [superseded by CUNY 33 poster]
Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Adjectival sluices in Hungarian: An argument for isomorphic sources. Talk at PLC 43. [superseded by CLS 55 handout]
2018
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Computing implicatures under QUDs. Talk at NELS 49. [slides]
Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Processing quantity implicatures under QUDs. Poster at AMLaP 24. [poster]
Yenan Sun, Eszter Ronai, Alan Yu & Ming Xiang. The role of contextual-pragmatic information in speech perception: an eye-tracking study. Poster at CUNY 31. [poster]
Yenan Sun, Laura Stigliano, Eszter Ronai, Amara Sankhagowit, Anisia Popescu, Alan Yu & Ming Xiang. The role of contextual-pragmatic information in speech perception: an eye-tracking study. Poster at LSA 92. [poster]
2017
Eszter Ronai. Quantifier scope in heritage bilinguals: a comparative experimental study. Poster at NELS 48. [poster]
Eszter Ronai. Quantifier scope in heritage bilinguals: a comparative experimental study. Talk at SWAMP 2017. [slides]