RAILS 2025 Program

09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Opening Remarks
09:45 – 10:45 Adele Goldberg
Rational Productivity: using a system of learned constructions to express new messages
10:45 – 11:15 John Duff, Delaney Gomez-Jackson, Fe Silva Robles, Maziar Toosarvandani, Matthew Wagers
Crosslinguistic Variation in Structural Prediction as Learned Behavior
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:15 Markus Bader, Michael Meng
Constraints on Word Exchanges During Noisy-Channel Inference
12:15 – 12:45 Anna Kapron-King, Lauren Fletcher, Aida Tarighat, Radina Dobreva, Stephanie Droop, Chris Cummins, Hannah Rohde
Tell It Like It (Usually) Is(n’t): Speakers’ Mention of Instruments in Reddit Corpus Reflects Instrument (A)typicality
12:45 – 02:00 Lunch Break (Lunch provided)
02:00 – 02:30 Ellis Cain, Alton Chao, Rachel Ryskin
Diachronic Language Change Explains Apparent Age-Related Differences in Information-Theoretic Efficiency
02:30 – 03:00 Wei Xue, Julius Steuer, Dietrich Klakow, Bernd Möbius
Investigating the Correlation Between Human Predictability Judgements and Computational Estimates from Text- and Audio-Based Models
03:00 – 03:30 Regine Bader, Samira Engels, Axel Mecklinger
Confirmed and Violated Predictions Benefit Long-Term-Memory
03:30 – 04:00 Coffee Break
04:00 – 05:00 Rachel Ryskin (online)
Language comprehension adapted to the environment
07:00 Conference Dinner at Casino am Staden
09:00 – 10:00 Richard Futrell
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10:00 – 10:30 Kate McCurdy, Michael Hahn
Lossy Context Surprisal Predicts Task Differences in Relative Clause Processing
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Xinyue Jia, Christoph Aurnhammer, Torsten Jachmann, Francesca Delogu, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker
Lossy Context Surprisal: Influence of Linearization on Expectation
11:30 – 12:00 Diego Alves, Stefan Fischer, Elke Teich
Paradigmatic Variability of Multi-Word Expressions in Scientific English
12:00 – 12:30 Simon Wehrle, Malin Spaniol
Effects of Conversational Context on Turn-Timing in (Non-)Autistic Dyads
12:30 – 01:30 Lunch Break (Lunch provided)
01:30 – 02:30 Poster Session 1
02:30 – 03:00 Robin Lemke
Testing a Rational Account of Fragment Usage with Crowd-Sourced Production Data
03:00 – 03:30 Chris Cummins, Hannah Rohde
Joint Inference about Pragmatically-Relevant Contextual Features
03:30 – 04:00 Coffee Break
04:00 – 04:30 Sneha Chetani, Iza Škrjanec, Vera Demberg
Analyzing the Effects of Temperature-Scaled Surprisal for Subword Reading Times
04:30 – 05:00 Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Probabilistic Inference and Frequency Effects in Language Change
Celina Rolgeiser, Katja I. Haeuser
False Remembering Elicited by Disconfirmed Predictions: Do Semantic and Word Form Features Linger in Memory?
Wei Xue, Bernd Möbius
L1 and L2 Speakers‘ Performance in Receptive Multilingualism
Margarita Ryzhova, Emilia Ellsiepen, Katharina Trinley, Iza Skrjanec, Vera Demberg
Effects of Linguistic Context and Reading Abilities on Comprehension of Unknown Words
Ivan Yuen, Bistra Andreeva, Omnia Ibrahim, Bernd Moebius
Is Frequency Effect on Phonological and Phonetic Encoding Word-Based or Syllable-Based?
Peter Racz, Agnes Lukacs
Morphological Convergence in a Simulated Dyadic Interaction
Agnes Lukacs, Anna Babarczy, Krisztina Lukics, Péter Rácz, Bálint Ugrin
Exploring the Interaction of Linguistic and Visual Cues in Sentence Production: The Role of Information Structure
Moshe Poliak*, Aixiu An*, Roger Levy, Edward Gibson
Rational Inference Underlies Judgments of Grammatical Well-Formedness
Sidharth Ranjan, Titus von der Malsburg
Limits of Dependency Length Minimization
Katja Haeuser
How Adaptive is Linguistic Prediction?
Lucie Guštarová, Jan Chromý
Immediate Recall and Information Predictability in Reading and Listening Comprehension
Gerard Kempen, Karin Harbusch
Towards a Stochastic Model of the Human Word-finding Process
Underlying Zipf’s Law: A Crucial Role for Sample-Space Reduction?
Ellis Cain, Alton Chao, Rachel Ryskin
Stability in the Production of Syntactic Attachment Across the Lifespan
Sergei Bagdasarov, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Diego Alves
Domain Expertise Reduces Reading Times of Multi-Word Expressions in Academic Texts
Andrew Dyer
Predictability and Surprisal as Approximators of Information Status
Doruntinë Zogaj, Regine Bader, Axel Mecklinger
From Moments to Memories: Unveiling the Role of Event Boundaries in Narratives
Elli Tourtouri, Mitra Gholami, Nicole Gotzner
Gaze and Pupil Indices of Rational Reference Production
Lena Wieland, Ingo Reich
Comprehension of Idiomatic Expressions in Low-Literacy Readers of EasyGerman: An Experimental Investigation
Geraldine Mueller, Katja Haeuser
A Revised Version of the German Author Recognition Test
Raul Aranovich
An Evaluation of Shannon’s „Basic English“ Redundancy Conjecture
Lotte Eijk, Stefany Stankova, Sophie Meekings
Exploring Turn-Taking in People Who Do and Do Not Stutter
Merrick Giles, Francis Mollica
Colour is Privileged in Over-Informative Referential Expressions
Marian Marchal, Merel Scholman, Ted Sanders, Vera Demberg
Predicting Discourse Relations: The Processing Benefit of the Connective
Morwenna Hoeks, Maziar Toosarvandani, Amanda Rysling
Probing Adaptive Resource Allocation in Discourse: Evidence from Foci and Filled Gaps
Maria Kunilovskaya, Heike Przybyl, Christina Pollkläsener, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Elke Teich
Cross-Lingual Account of Memory and Surprisal for Interpreting
09:00 – 10:00 Mark Dingemanse
Reasoning in interaction
10:00 – 11:00 Poster Session 2
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Jingwen Cao, Lawrence Yam-Leung Cheung
A Multifactorial Corpus-Based Analysis of Classifier Positioning in Mandarin Relative Clauses
12:00 – 12:30 Sophia Voigtmann
It’s All in the Past. An Experimental and Rational Approach to the Influence of the Sentence Onset on Past Tense Choice in German
12:30 – 01:00 Julius Steuer, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Elke Teich, Dietrich Klakow
Quantifying the Development of Communicative Efficiency in Scientific English
01:00 – 01:15 Closing Remarks
Linda Sommerfeld, Katja Haeuser, Arielle Borovsky, Jutta Kray
Downstream Effects of Prediction on Word Recognition — The Influence of Working Memory Load and Capacity
Denisa Bordag, Andreas Opitz
The Role of Linguistic and Conceptual Feature Properties in Native and Non-Native Processing and Memory
Sarah Jablotschkin, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Heike Zinsmeister
Analysis of Simplification in Coreference from Two Perspectives
Qiushi ZHANG
Investigating the Effectiveness of Standard Aviation Phraseology Design: A Combination of Corpus Analysis and Psycholinguistic Experimentation
Isabell Landwehr, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
The Effect of Noun Phrase Complexity in Scientific Texts on Reading Times of Experts and Novices
Benedict Krieger, Harm Brouwer, Christoph Aurnhammer, Matthew W. Crocker
On the Limits of LLM Surprisal as Functional Explanation of ERPs
Julia Meßmer, Axel Mecklinger
Searching for the Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Gist and Verbatim Encoding
Maria Kunilovskaya, Iulia Zaitova, Wei Xue, Ira Strenger
Intelligibility of Slavic Functional Multiwords: Translation Experiment Results
Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert Hawkins
Modeling Decision Problems for Relevant Answers to Polar Questions
Valeriya Prokaeva
Classroom Dialogic Interaction: Contextual Variability of Allo-Repetitions
Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson, Michael Ramscar
What Happens if an Efficient Information Structure is Disrupted? A Preliminary Study on Personal Names
Muqing Li, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Torsten Kai Jachmann, Heiner Drenhaus, Matthew W. Crocker
Informativity Can Modulate Linearization Preferences in Referential Interaction
Iuliia Zaitova, Wei Xue, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova
Predictive Potential of Linguistic Distances and Surprisal in Multilingual Intercomprehension Experiments
Sophia Voigtmann
The Object Order in the German Middle Field through the Lens of Information Theory: A Diachronic Study
Jan Chromý, Markéta Ceháková, Michael Ramscar
Reading Tiramisu in Czech and English: Robust Processing Speed Differences in Translation Equivalent Stimuli
Torsten Jachmann, Heiner Drenhaus, Francesca Delogu, Matthew Crocker
The Role of Impliedness in Investigating the Interplay of Word Order and Information Status
Maria Kunilovskaya, Elke Teich, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
Translationese as Rational Communication: An Information-Theoretical Approach
Bozhidara Hristova, Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus, Ingo Reich
The Presentation Format in Cloze Tasks Influences Syntactic Predictability but It Does Not Influence Semantic Predictability
Svetlana Vetchinnikova
The Role of Surprisal in Perceptual Chunking of Spontaneous Speech
Luigi Talamo, Andrew Dyer, Annemarie Verkerk
The Information Curve in Verb-Initial Languages: A Parallel Corpus-Based Study
Luigi Talamo, Andrew Dyer, Annemarie Verkerk
Information Structure and Cognitive States in the Structure of German Sentences
Kata Naszadi, Alexandra Mayn, John Duff, Vera Demberg
Listeners Adapt to Speakers‘ Pragmatic Competence
Eileen Kammel, Anne Beyer, David Schlangen
Evaluating LLMs Through Self-Play: Testing Comprehension and Generation of Referring Expressions in Multi-Modal LLMs by Employing a Picture-Guessing Dialogue Game
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