Ira Noveck

So, questions about whether scalar implicatures are scalar or implicatures have not really surfaced. That might be changing though….

But I think the main reason you get that impression is because investigations into scalar implicature phenomena took on a life of their own (e.g. developmental and processing effects).

It’s read and it’s cited. On the other hand, it has been impossible (for me at least) to get it disentangled from our other joint publications (e.g. to be seen as an independent entry on Google Scholar).

These people will never be satisfied

I find Researchgate superior to Academia, including creating permanent links.

Happy In Theory This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.

New Substack post

It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work

As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending

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Arghh… just to watch the Mets lose 😕

From York to New York

What norming reveals about idioms: Making the case for a presuppositional account - Memory & Cognition While early accounts of idiomatic expressions proposed that they are compositional or else directly retrievable from memory, the multi-determined view posited that idiom comprehension depends on obser...

In other news (they came in threes), Nick Griffen and I have a paper that just came out providing some support for our Presuppositional Account of idioms. Here’s the link. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Isolating the extra-logical features of but and so by comparing their processing to and's: An investigation with thematically neutral content Author(s): Larralde, Cecile; Moyer, Morgan; Pouscoulous, Nausicaa; Noveck, Ira | Abstract: Connectives such as and, but, and so conjoin two elements of discourse in characteristic ways. While highligh...

Just out: escholarship.org/uc/item/8fc3...

Deciphering the electrophysiological signature of discourse connectives The discourse connectives but and so trigger specific kinds of inferences, which are characterizable as contrastive and causal, respectively. Inspired…

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Deciphering the electrophysiological signature of discourse connectives The discourse connectives but and so trigger specific kinds of inferences, which are characterizable as contrastive and causal, respectively. Inspired…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Isolating the extra-logical features of but and so by comparing their processing to and's: An investigation with thematically neutral content Author(s): Larralde, Cecile; Moyer, Morgan; Pouscoulous, Nausicaa; Noveck, Ira | Abstract: Connectives such as and, but, and so conjoin two elements of discourse in characteristic ways. While highligh...

Just out: escholarship.org/uc/item/8fc3...

Two articles from our lab on discourse connectives (specifically “and”, “but” & “so”). Both papers form just part of Cecile Larralde’s dissertation that took place last November. The work shows, in detail, how such words, from the moment they appear, generate specific procedures among participants.

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This is a really nice paper that tries to fill the gap between grammar and Intention, and in a productive way!

New paper:
Communication & grammar: A synthesis

Now in press at Psychological Review (cc @apajournals.bsky.social)

In which I describe how contextualist approaches to communication fit especially well with constructionist approaches to grammar

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Or an undergraduate

Looking for a motivated Masters Student to help us run a study on discourse connectives.

Good idea

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Paul Theroux describes nicely what it’s like to live abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

We’ve had worries about Prolific. While ratings studies have led to robust findings, reaction time studies have been inconsistent (across nearly identical studies).

14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing 14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing was published in Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance on page 413.

This represents some of the work on discourse connectives carried out by Cecile along with Morgan Moyer and myself. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Cecile Larralde will be defending her thesis today at 13:30 in Paris. Its title is “Experimental investigations into the procedural meaning of discourse connectives.” She’s the first PhD product of the GRISP lab (within a lab), which started when I moved to Paris (the Université Paris Cité).

A mountain of small things I live under its shadow. I suspect most of you do too. It is the great mountain of small things. Every year, it grows a little taller, a little more imposi

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First time visitor. Looks nice. I think I’ll come back.