Peer-reviewed journal articles(* = equal contribution)
2024. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. What could have been said? Alternatives and variability in pragmatic inferences. Journal of Memory and Language, 136: 104507. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104507 [accepted manuscript]
2023. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Memory Versus Expectation: Processing Relative Clauses in a Flexible Word Order Language. Cognitive Science, 47: e13227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13227 [paper] (open access)
2022. Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Experimentally testing the interpretation of multiple sluicing and multiple questions. The Linguistic Review 39(3), pp. 401–423. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2022-2092 [paper] (open access)
2021. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Pragmatic inferences are QUD-sensitive: An experimental study. Journal of Linguistics 57(4), pp. 841–870. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000389 [read only] [accepted manuscript]
2020. Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. NP ellipsis bleeds allomorphy in Hungarian. Snippets 39, pp. 10–12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/snip-2020-039-rost [paper]
2020. Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Adjectival sluices in Hungarian: An argument for isomorphic sources. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 38(4), pp. 1197–1210. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-020-09468-w [read only] [accepted manuscript]
2019. Eszter Ronai, Yenan Sun, Alan Yu & Ming Xiang. Integration of contextual-pragmatic and phonetic information in speech perception: An eye-tracking study. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 10(1): 20, pp. 1–15. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.186 [paper] (open access)
Conference proceedings
2023. Helena Aparicio* & Eszter Ronai*. Scalar implicature rates vary within and across adjectival scales. In Proceedings of the 33rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, pp. 110-130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/t7t8pn98 [paper]
2023. Alexander Göbel* & Eszter Ronai*. On the meaning of intonational contours: a view from scalar inference. In Proceedings of the 33rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, pp. 439-459. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/dnsw0s29 [paper]
2023. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Degree estimates as a measure of inference calculation. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 8(1), 5537. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5537 [paper]
2023. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Tracking the activation of scalar alternatives with semantic priming. In Tyler Knowlton et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning: Volume 2, pp. 229-240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.2.5371 [paper]
2022. Eszter Ronai* & Lucas Fagen*. Exclusives vary in strength and scale structure: experimental evidence. In Marco Degano et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium, pp. 258-266. [paper]
2022. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Quantifying semantic and pragmatic effects on scalar diversity. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7(1), 5216. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5216 [paper]
2022. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Three factors in explaining scalar diversity. In Daniel Gutzmann and Sophie Repp (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26, pp. 716–733. University of Cologne. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2022.v26i0.1026 [paper]
2021. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Exploring the connection between Question Under Discussion and scalar diversity. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1), pp. 649–662. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.5001 [paper]
2021. Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Licensing of nominal ellipsis in Hungarian possessives. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1), pp. 600–607. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4994 [paper]
2021. Eszter Ronai* & Laura Stigliano*. Is multiple fronting necessary for multiple sluicing? The view from Hungarian. In Rachel Soo et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 377–385. Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA. [paper]
2019. Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang. Calculating scalar inference under QUDs. In Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky (eds.), NELS 49: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume Three, pp. 73–86. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [paper]
2018. Eszter Ronai. Quantifier scope in heritage bilinguals: a comparative experimental study. In Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson (eds.), NELS 48: Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society: Volume Three, pp. 29–38. GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [paper]