Dr

ANNA PAPAFRAGOU

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

109 WOLF HALL • NEWARK, DE 19716

TEL.: (302) 831 2752 • FAX: (302) 831 3645

: a[email protected]u

CURRENT POSITION

2015- Professor, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware

2015- Professor, Dept. of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware (joint

appointment)

2012- Director of Graduate Education, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University

of Delaware

EDUCATION

1998 Ph.D. Linguistics, University College London (advisor: D. Wilson)

Modality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (published by Elsevier, 2000)

1994 M.A. Linguistics, University College London (with distinction)

1992 B.A. Classics and Linguistics, University of Athens (‘Excellent’)

POSITIONS HELD

2009-15 Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Dept. of Linguistics

and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware

2004-09 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology (now Psychological and Brain Sciences) and

Dept. of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware

2002-04 Postdoctoral Researcher,

NIMH/National Research Service Award, Institute for

Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania (advisor: L. Gleitman)

1999-02 Postdoctoral Fellow, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania (advisor: L. Gleitman)

1998-99 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Depts. of Linguistics and Psychology, UC Berkeley

1992-93 Research Fellow, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece

1991 Undergraduate Research Fellow, ILSP, Athens, Greece

AWARDS AND HONORS

Awards

• “Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing” from editors of Cognition (2014)

• Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award for ‘Lexical and structural biases in the acquisition of motion

verbs’, awarded by journal Language Learning and Development, 2010

• Jean Berko-Gleason Award, Boston University Conference on Language Development, for best

paper with graduate student as first author (Skordos & Papafragou), 2009

• Young Scholars Award of the Francis Alison Society, 2007 (given to one Assistant Professor at the

University of Delaware each year to recognize “outstanding academic achievements”)

• Center for International Studies Faculty Fellow, University of Delaware, Fall 2007

Graduate fellowships

• National Scholarships Foundation, Greece, 1993-97 (one of two awardees in Theoretical

Linguistics nation-wide)

• G. Leventis Foundation, London, 1996-1997

Other graduate awards/sponsorships

• British Federation of Women Graduates, 1998

• Newby Trust, London, 1997

• Gilchrist Educational Trust, London, 1997

• Sponsorship, 4th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, 1998 (awarded to

three best graduate papers)

• Sponsorship, 12th Sociolinguistics Symposium, 1998 (awarded to best graduate papers)

Undergraduate award of academic excellence (awarded to top 3% in class of 350)

• National Scholarships Foundation, Greece, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992

Fellowships for Proficiency in German, Goethe Institute, Athens

• Year-long free tuition, offered for best Mitelstufe exam in Institute

• Summer Fellowship for Language Course, Rosenheim, Germany

FUNDING

• UD NSF-ADVANCE Institute Leadership Mini-Grant, 2016 ($1,730)

• NSF RII Track-2 FEC, “Neural networks underlying the integration of knowledge and perception”

(multi-site grant, UD as lead institution), PI: Jared Medina, Papafragou: Senior Faculty, 9/1/2016-

8/31/2020 ($6,000,000)

• UD General University Research Grant, “Conversational inference and the mechanisms of

language processing”, 2016 ($6,037)

• NSF Grant BCS-0749870, “Evidential categories in language and cognition”, PI: Anna

Papafragou, 10/1/2010-3/31/2014, no-cost extension until 3/31/2016 ($239,999)

• NIH/NICHD Grant R01HD055498, “The interface between spatial cognition and language”, PI:

Anna Papafragou, co-PI: John Trueswell, 3/5/2008-2/28/2013, no-cost extension until 2/28/2014

($1,331,261)

• UD Center for International Studies Faculty Fellowship, “Universality and variation in language

and cognition”, 2007 ($5,000 plus teaching release)

• NSF Grant BCS-0641105, “Mapping events onto language”, PI: Anna Papafragou, co-PI: John

Trueswell, 4/1/2007-3/31/2010, no-cost extension until 10/31/2012 ($375,000)

• UD Research Foundation (UDRF), “Mapping perception onto language”, 2006-7 ($25,000)

• UNIDEL/Early Learning Center Small Grant, “Events in perception and language”, 2006 ($6,400)

• UD International Research Award, “Cross-linguistic studies of event cognition”, 2005 ($5,000)

• UD General University Research Grant, “Relationships between language and thought”, 2005

($6,000)

• NIMH/National Research Service Postdoctoral Award, “The acquisition of mental state verbs”,

#1F32MH65020, 2002-04 ($148,548)

Sponsor for funded graduate/undergraduate research

• Amelia Weiss, Travel Fund from 2nd Annual Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition in Hispanic

and General Linguistics for one of two best posters, 2015 ($500)

• Hannah Schwartz, UD Undergraduate Science and Engineering Scholarship, 2015 ($2,500)

• Angela Yung, UD Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship, 2012 ($2,500)

• Adrienne Pinto, UD Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($1,000) & Psi Chi

Summer Research Fellowship ($3,500 plus $1,500 for lab support), 2011

• Megan Johanson (Psychology) and Dimitrios Skordos (Linguistics), Award for Global Research,

Internships, and Performance, Office of Graduate and Professional Education, UD, 2010 ($6,200)

• Carlyn Friedberg, UD Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship, 2008 ($2,500) &

Science and Engineering Scholarship, 2007 ($3,500 plus $500 for lab)

• Kendra Goodwin, Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer supplement to UDRF, 2007

($3,500)

• Matthew Cohen, UD Undergraduate Science and Engineering Scholarship, 2006 ($3,500 plus $500

for lab)

TEACHING

University of Delaware

• Communication and Cognition (Psyc 467/667), Fall 2015

• Topics in Psycholinguistics (Psyc 667), Fall 2014

• Language, Learning and Development (Psyc 667), Fall 2011

• Language and Space (Psyc 667), Fall 2008

• Language and Thought (Psyc 667), Spring 2006

• Psychology of Language (Psyc 344), Fall 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring

2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016

• Cognition (Psyc 340), Spring 2005, Fall 2004

University of Pennsylvania/University College London

• Linguistic Pragmatics I (Ling 590), Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn, 2001-02

• Discourse Analysis (Ling 604; Special topic: The acquisition of reference), co-taught w/E. Prince,

Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn, 2002

• Pragmatic Theory (undergraduate/MA course), Dept. of Linguistics, UCL, 1997

• Issues in Pragmatics (advanced undergraduate/M.A. course), Dept. of Linguistics, UCL, 1998

• Issues in Pragmatics (TA; instructor: D. Wilson), Dept. of Linguistics, UCL, 1997

• Pragmatic Theory (TA; instructor: D. Wilson), Dept. of Linguistics, UCL,1994-96

ADVISING

University of Delaware

Postdoctoral researchers

• K. Harrigan, theory of mind and mental verbs, 2015-6; next position: Visiting Assistant Professor,

Depts. of Linguistics & Psychology, College of William & Mary

• F. Wilson, representation of events and verbs, 2010-2012; next position: Research Officer,

Research Division, Cambridge Assessment, University of Cambridge, England

• A. Bunger, online event perception and language acquisition, 2008-2013; next position: Visiting

Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary

• J. Viau, acquisition of spatial language, 2008-2009 (co-sponsored with Barbara Landau, Johns

Hopkins); next position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UD

Ph.D. students (primary advisor)

• D. Saras, Dept. of Linguistics

• A. Kampa, Dept. of Linguistics

• Y. Ji, Dept. of Linguistics

• S. Bartell, Dept. of Linguistics

• S. Fairchild, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences

• M. Grigoroglou, “Event representations across languages”, Dept. of Linguistics

• E. Unal, “Acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish”, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences

• D. Skordos, “Scalar implicatures in children: Alternatives and relevance”, Dept. of Linguistics,

2014; next position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Depts. of Linguistics & Psychology, College of

William & Mary

• M. Johanson, “The influence of labels and facts on categorization”, Dept. of Psychology, 2012;

next position: postdoc, School of Education, UD

• O. Ozturk, “The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring”, Dept. of Linguistics, 2008;

next position: postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Ph.D. students (committee member)

• A. Tran, “Is tracking capacity limited by a discrete or continuous resource?”, Dept. of

Psychological & Brain Sciences, UD

• S. Beighley, “Shaping an imagined space: Exploring the influence of object properties on scene

representation”, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UD

• A. Ramirez, “Parsing in L1 and L2”, Dept. of Linguistics, UD

• H. Konishi, “Loss of semantic distinctions as a result of first language”, School of Education, UD,

2015

• K. Gagnier, “Rethinking Boundary Extension”, Dept. of Psychology, UD, 2010

• Y. Hara, “Grammar of knowledge representation: Japanese discourse items at interfaces”, Dept. of

Linguistics, UD, 2006

• R. Pulverman, “Infants’ acquisition of verb semantics”, Dept. of Linguistics, UD, 2005

• L. Lakusta, “Source and goal in non-linguistic event representations”, Dept. of Cognitive Science,

Johns Hopkins University, 2005

Graduate independent projects

• M. Grigoroglou, K. Schneck, “Event categories across languages”, Dept. of Linguistics, Fall 2013-

Spring 2014

• F. Gervits, “Ostensive vs. non-ostensive labeling and categorization”, Dept. of Linguistics, Fall

2012-Fall 2013

• J. Damonte, “The potency of labels in children’s categorization”, School of Education, Fall 2012-

• M. Choi, “Inference and source monitoring”, Dept. of Linguistics, Fall 2012-Fall 2013

• S. Bosse, “Language and spatial memory”, Dept. of Linguistics, Spring-Fall 2009

Undergraduate honors theses

• H. Schwarz, “Cognitive advantages of linguistic labels” (2016-7)

• M. Marquez, “Lexicalization biases in motion descriptions”, McNair scholar (2012-2013), co-

advised with R. Golinkoff

• A. Pinto, “Cross-linguistic differences in source monitoring” (2011-2012)

• S. Solomon, “The effects of linguistic categories on color perception” (2010-2011), co-advised

with J. Hoffman

o Sigma Xi Senior Thesis Award

o Halsey McPhee Undergraduate Award

• M. Cohen, “The development of pragmatics” (2006-2007)

o Sigma Xi Senior Thesis Award

o Halsey McPhee Undergraduate Award

Undergraduate independent projects

• 2004-present: typically advised between 2 and 6 undergraduates per semester (approx. total: 35)

• Awards to undergraduates: 3 Science and Engineering Scholarships (UD Office of Undergraduate

Research), 3 departmental Halsey McPhee Award for best all-around undergraduate, PsyChi

honors award, one of 2 awards from 2nd Annual Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition in Hispanic

and General Linguistics for top papers, and 3 co-authorships on journal papers

• Advised 3 McNair summer scholars

• Undergraduate lab alumni have gone on to graduate programs at Duke University, University of

Florida, Northwestern University, NYU, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University

of Arizona, University of Maryland, UC Santa Barbara, Adelphi University, and to RA positions

at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Ph.D. students

• A. Aravind, MIT (2016)

External examining

• Ph.D. external examiner, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (student: I. Dosi, 2016)

• External honors examiner, Swarthmore College, Dept. of Psychology (2009, 2012, 2014, 2015)

University of Pennsylvania

MA thesis (Linguistics)

• “The processing and acquisition of proportional determiners”, N. Schwarz (2002-2003)

Undergraduate honors theses (Psychology)

• “The role of scene and syntax in mental verb learning”, J. Hulbert (2003-2004)

o Winner of Morris Viteles Award for excellence in undergraduate research, Dept. of Psychology

o UPenn President’s Award for "best of the best" of 2004 undergraduate theses

• “The acquisition of mental verbs”, D. Septimus (2001-2002)

• Also advised 3 undergraduate independent projects (Psychology)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of Delaware

• Mentor for one junior faculty in Psychology (Fall 2016-) and in Linguistics (Spring 2017-)

• Committee on Hiring Directions in Biomedical Imaging, Brain Imaging, Neuroscience, and Neural

Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2016

• Neuroscience Search Committee, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Fall 2015

• Provost’s Review Committee for Responsibility Based Budgeting, Fall 2013-Spring 2014

• Provost Search Committee, Fall 2012-Spring 2013

• Director of Graduate Education, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, July 2012-

• Advisory Committee, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, 2012-

• Steering Committee, Interdepartmental Cognitive Science Ph.D. certificate, Fall 2012-

• Graduate Group, Dept. of Linguistics & Cognitive Science, Fall 2004-

• Early Learning Center Program Council, Fall 2006-

• Cross-departmental Cognitive Science Steering Committee, Fall 2005-

• Cognitive Psychology Area Director, Spring 2010-Summer 2012

• Psychology Graduate Committee, Spring 2010-

• Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, Dept. of Psychology, Fall 2011

• Committee for Creation of Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science, Fall 2010

• Psychology Executive Committee, Spring 2010

• Undergraduate Committee, Spring 2010

• Cognitive Psychology Brown Bag talks co-ordinator, Spring 2009

• Speaker at UD Research Office Workshop (topic: ‘NSF Funding’), January 2009

• Committee for Website Redesign, Dept. of Psychology, Fall 2008

• Developmental Neuroscience Initiative, Dept. of Psychology, Fall 2008

• Behavioral Neuroscience Search Committee, Dept. of Psychology, Fall 2008

• Psycholinguistics/Computational Linguistics Search Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, Spring 2007

• Review Committee for Chair of Psychology, Fall 2006

• Search Committee for Cognitive Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Fall 2005

• Undergraduate Committee, Dept. of Psychology, Spring 2004-Fall 2005

• Selection Committee for International Travel Awards, Spring 2005

• Theoretical Linguistics Search Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, Fall 2004

Previous service

• Graduate Group in Linguistics, UPenn, 2001-03

• Committee on Qualifying Exams in Pragmatics, UPenn, 2002, 2003

• Undergraduate Admissions Committee, UCL, 1997-98

• Faculty tutor for undergraduate students, UCL, 1997-98

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Leadership in Professional Societies

• Cognitive Science Society Governing Board (elected in 2017; 6-year term)

• Organizing Committee Chair and Program Co-Chair, Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting,

Philadelphia (2016)

• Program Committee, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (invited in 2009; 3-year term)

Editorial Boards and Activities

• Editorial Board, Language Acquisition (2011- ), Yearbook of Linguistic Variation (2006- ), Child

Development (2007-2015)

• Guest Editor, Special issues of Language Learning and Development on ‘Number: Origins and

Development’ and ‘The Acquisition of Pragmatics’ (2017)

•

Editorial Board, ‘Language Faculty and Beyond’ book series, Benjamins (formerly: North Holland

‘Linguistic Variation’, Elsevier; 2007- )

•

Editor, Oxford Handbook of the Mental Lexicon, OUP (w/J. Trueswell, L. Gleitman)

• Journal article reviewer for PNAS; Psychological Science; Trends in Cognitive Science; WIREs

Cognitive Science; Child Development; Cognitive Development; Developmental Psychology;

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Cognition; Cognitive Science; Journal of

Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and

Cognition; Language; Language and Cognitive Processes; Language Learning and Development;

Language and Cognition; Journal of Linguistics; Linguistics; Linguistics and Philosophy; Mind

and Language; Glossa; Autism Research Review; Brain Research; International Journal of

Language and Communication Disorders; Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research;

Journal of Cognition and Culture

• Book/book chapter reviewer for Benjamins, Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Mouton, Wiley-

Blackwell

Grant Review Boards and Activities

• Panelist, NSF Merit Review Board, Linguistics Program (3-year term)

• Research Proposal reviewer for NSF (programs: Linguistics; Developmental and Learning

Sciences; Anthropology); NIH (Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Study

Section); ESRC (UK); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada; European

Research Council; Leverhulme Trust (UK); French National Research Agency; National Research

Council of Romania; Czech Science Foundation; Israel Science Foundation; Italian Ministry of

Health; Cyprus Research Foundation; Greek Ministry of Education; Leuven University Internal

Grants; University of Cyprus; San Diego State University Internal Grants

Program Reviews

• Member, External advisory board for NSF IGERT program ‘Language and Communication

Sciences’, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania (2006-2011)

• Chair, External review board, Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, University of

Athens, Greece (2013)

Meetings Organization

• Co-founder, NSF-funded Annual Undergraduate Workshop in Cognitive and Brain Science,

University of Delaware (2017-)

• Organizer, Society for Language Development Symposium (full-day event in Boston)

o ‘The development of pragmatics’ (2015). Speakers: E. Clark, J. Snedeker, D. Barner.

o ‘Number: Origins and development’ (2014). Speakers: E. Spelke, E. Brannon. J. Cantlon.

o ‘Mechanisms for word learning’ (2013). Speakers: J. Trueswell, M. Frank, L. Bonatti.

o ‘Neuroplasticity and language’ (2012). Speakers: A. Pascual-Leone, R. Saxe, A. Patel.

• Organizer and Chair

o Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning 5, UD (w/S. Tomioka; 2015)

o Symposium on Online Studies of Event Representation, Society for Research in Child

Development (SRCD) Meeting (2011)

o Symposium on Spatial Language and Cognition, SRCD Meeting (2009)

o Symposium on Theory of Mind and Language Acquisition, SRCD Meeting (2009)

o Symposium on Language and Cognition, Cognitive Science Society Meeting (2005)

o UPenn-Tübingen Workshop on Linguistic Interfaces (2002)

o Postdoc Colloquium (2000), Postdoc Lunch (1999), IRCS, University of Pennsylvania

• Program Committee, SALT (2016); Beyond Meaning Conference, Greece (2016); Utterance

Interpretation and Cognitive Models (2015); Cognitive Science Society Meeting (2011, 2012,

2013, 2017); West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2012); joint meeting of Society for

Philosophy and Psychology and European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2010);

Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Greece (2006, 2008); Association for Computational

Linguistics-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions (2005)

• Conference paper reviewer for Linguistic Society of America Meeting (2006, 2007, 2009-2011);

International Association for the Study of Child Language (2013); LSA Institute (2011); SRCD

(2012); Boston University Conference on Language Development (2004-2016); Society for

Philosophy and Psychology (2009); Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North

America (2004, 2010, 2012); SALT (2011); WCCFL (2004, 2006, 2011); Penn Linguistics

Colloquium (2001-2012); Cognitive Science Society Conference (2000, 2002, 2005, 2011, 2015);

ESSLI (2002); WECOL (2007); AmLAP (2012); CUNY (2012, 2014); Sinn und Bedeutung

(2015)

Professional Membership

• Association for Psychological Science (lifetime member)

• Linguistic Society of America (lifetime member)

• Society for Philosophy and Psychology (lifetime member)

• Society for Language Development

• Cognitive Development Society

• Society for Research in Child Development

• Cognitive Science Society

• Women in Cognitive Science

Select Lab Outreach Activities

• AAAS Family Science Days, AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston (2017)

• STEM Education partner, Delaware Children’s Museum (2016-)

• The Ultimate Block Party (Science Party for Families), Baltimore (2013)

• Science Fairs, Early Learning Center, UD (2005-)

LANGUAGES

• Greek (native speaker)

• French (excellent; Diplôme d’Études Françaises II)

• German (very good; Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom)

• Classical Greek, Latin (excellent)

PUBLICATIONS

h-index (2016): 26 (Google Scholar)

Book

2000. Papafragou, A., Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Oxford: Elsevier.

Journal Papers

accepted. Papafragou, A., Friedberg, C., & Cohen, M., The role of speaker knowledge in children’s

pragmatic inferences. Child Development.

accepted. Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A., Interactions between language and mental representations.

Language Learning (Special issue on Linguistic Relativity.)

accepted. Papafragou, A., Fairchild, S., Cohen, M., & Friedberg, C., Learning words from speakers

with false beliefs. Journal of Child Language.

accepted. Bunger, A., Skordos, D., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., How adults and children encode

causative events cross-linguistically: Implications for language production and attention.

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

accepted. Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A., Production-Comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition:

Evidential morphology as a test case. Journal of Memory and Language (Special Issue on the

Relationship Between Language Production and Comprehension.)

2016. Landau, B., Johannes, K., Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A., Containment and support: Core

and complexity in spatial language learning. Cognitive Science 1-32.

2016. Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., The role of labels and facts in children’s and adults’

categorization.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 144, 130-151.

2016.

Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A., The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring.

Language Learning and Development 12, 199-230.

2016. Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A., Children’s derivation of scalar implicatures: alternatives and

relevance. Cognition 153, 8-16.

2016.

Ünal, E., Pinto, A., Bunger, A., & Papafragou, A., Monitoring sources of event memories: A

cross-linguistic investigation. Journal of Memory and Language 87, 157-176

2015. Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A., The acquisition of epistemic modality: From semantic

meaning to pragmatic interpretation. Language Learning and Development 11, 191-214.

2014. Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A., Lexical, syntactic and semantic-geometric factors in the

acquisition of motion predicates. Developmental Psychology 50, 1985-1998.

2014. Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., What does children’s spatial language reveal about spatial

concepts? Evidence from the use of containment expressions. Cognitive Science 38, 1-30.

2013. Hafri, A., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J., Getting the gist of events: Recognition of two-

participant actions from brief displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 142,

880-905.

2013.

Bunger, A., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J., Event structure influences language production:

Evidence from structural priming in motion event description. Journal of Memory and

Language 69, 299-323.

2012. Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., The relation between event apprehension and

utterance formulation in children: Evidence from linguistic omissions. Cognition 122, 135-

149.

2011. Li, P., Abarbanell, L., Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A., Spatial reasoning in Tenejapan

Mayans. Cognition 120, 33-53.

2011. Quinn, P., Doran, M., & Papafragou, A., Does changing the reference frame affect infant

categorization of the spatial relation BETWEEN? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

109, 109-122.

2010. Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., Perceiving and remembering events cross-linguistically:

Evidence from dual-task paradigms. Journal of Memory and Language 63, 64-82.

2010. Papafragou, A., Source/goal asymmetries in motion representation: Implications for language

production and comprehension. Cognitive Science 34, 1064-1092.

2010. Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S., Lexical and structural biases in the acquisition of motion

verbs. Language Learning and Development 6, 87-115.

2010. Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S., Event categorisation and language: A cross-linguistic study of

motion. Language and Cognitive Processes 25, 224-260.

2008. Papafragou, A., Hulbert, J., & Trueswell, J., Does language guide event perception? Evidence

from eye movements. Cognition 108, 155-184.

2007. Papafragou, A., Cassidy, K., & Gleitman, L., When we think about thinking: The acquisition

of belief verbs. Cognition 105, 125-165.

2007. Papafragou, A., Li, P., Choi, Y., & Han, C., Evidentiality in language and cognition.

Cognition 103, 253-299.

2006. Papafragou, A., From scalar semantics to implicature: Children’s interpretation of aspectuals.

Journal of Child Language 33, 721-757.

2006. Papafragou, A., Epistemic modality and truth conditions. Lingua 116, 1688-1702.

2006. Hurewitz, F., Papafragou, A., Gleitman, L., & Gelman, R., Asymmetries in the acquisition of

numbers and quantifiers. Language Learning and Development 2, 77-96.

2006. Papafragou, A., & Schwarz, N., Most wanted. Language Acquisition 13 (Special issue - The

acquisition of quantification), 207-251.

2006. Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L., When English proposes what Greek

presupposes: The cross-linguistic encoding of motion events. Cognition 98, B75-87.

2005. Gleitman, L., Cassidy, K., Nappa, R., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J., Hard words.

Language, Learning and Development 1, 23-64.

2004. Papafragou, A., & Tantalou, N., Children’s computation of implicatures. Language

Acquisition 12, 71-82.

2003. Papafragou, A., & Musolino, J., Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the semantics-

pragmatics interface. Cognition 86, 253-282.

2002. Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L., Shake, rattle, 'n' roll: The representation of

motion in language and cognition. Cognition 84, 189-219.

2002. Papafragou, A., Mindreading and verbal communication. Mind and Language 17, 55-67.

2000. Papafragou, A., On speech-act modality. Journal of Pragmatics 32, 519-538.

1998. Papafragou, A., The acquisition of modality: Implications for theories of semantic

representation. Mind and Language 13, 370-399.

1998. Papafragou, A., Inference and word meaning: The case of modal auxiliaries. Lingua 105, 1-

47.

1996. Papafragou, A., On metonymy. Lingua 99, 169-195.

1996. Papafragou, A., Figurative language and the semantics-pragmatics distinction. Language and

Literature 5, 179-193.

Book Chapters and Reviews (* indicates peer review)

in review. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., Spatial terms. In C. Cummins & N. Katsos (eds.),

Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

in press

. Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A., The relation between language and mental state reasoning. In J.

Proust & M. Fortier (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Metacognitive Diversity. Oxford:

Oxford University Press.

in press. Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A., Evidentials, information sources and cognition. In A. Aikhenvald

(ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016. Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A., New perspectives on language and thought. In K. Holyoak

and R. Morrison (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. New York:

Oxford University Press. (updated version of 2005 chapter) *

2016. Papafragou, A., & Skordos, D., Scalar implicature. In J. Lidz, W. Snyder and J. Pater (eds.),

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics, 611-629. Oxford: Oxford University

Press. *

2016. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., Acquisition of Pragmatics. In R. Clark (M. Aronoff,

Series Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Online edition: Oxford University

Press.

2015. Papafragou, A., The representation of events in language and cognition. In E. Margolis and S.

Laurence (eds.), The conceptual mind: New directions in the study of concepts, 327-345.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2014.

Papafragou, A., Motion expression (development of). In P. Brooks, V. Kempe and G. Golson

(eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

2014. Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A., Relations between language and thought. In D. Reisberg

(ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.*

2011. Trueswell, J., Papafragou, A., & Choi, Y., Syntactic and referential processes: What

develops? In E. Gibson and N. Perlmutter (eds.), The processing and acquisition of reference.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. *

2010. Papafragou, A., Language and thought. Opinion piece in Atkinson and Hilgard’s Introduction

to Psychology. Cengage Learning. *

2010. Papafragou, A., Language. In B. Goldstein (ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception, 519-522.

Thousand Oaks: Sage. *

2007. Papafragou, A., Space and the language-cognition interface. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence and

S. Stich (eds.), The innate mind, Vol.3: Foundations and the future. Oxford: Oxford

University Press. *

2006. Papafragou, A., The representation of motion in language and thought. In. D. Goutsos, S.

Koutsoulelou, A. Bakakou-Orfanou and Ε. Panaretou (eds.), O kosmos ton keimenon: Meletes

afieromenes ston kathigiti Georgio Babinioti [= The world of texts. Studies dedicated to

Prof. George Babiniotis]. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.

2005. Papafragou, A., Relations between language and thought: Individuation and the count/mass

distinction. In C. Lefebvre and H. Cohen (eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive

Science, 255-275. New York: Elsevier. *

2005. Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A., Language and thought. In K. Holyoak and R. Morrison

(eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, 633-661. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press. *

2004. Papafragou, A., Review of R. Carston’s “Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of

Explicit Communication”. Lingua 114, 621-628.

2002. Papafragou, A., Modality and theory of mind: Perspectives from language development and

autism. In S. Barbiers, F. Beukema and W. van der Wurff (eds.), Modality and its interaction

with the verbal system, 185-204. Amsterdam: Benjamins. *

2001. Papafragou, A., Linking early linguistic and conceptual capacities: The role of theory of

mind. In A. Cienki, B. Luka and M. Smith (eds.), Conceptual and discourse factors in

linguistic structure, 169-184. Stanford: CSLI Publications. *

1998. Papafragou, A., Modality and semantic underdeterminacy. In V. Rouchota and A. Jucker

(eds.), Recent developments within Relevance Theory, 239-274. Amsterdam: Benjamins. *

Submitted/Under Revision

subm. Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A., Language and categorization in monolinguals and bilinguals.

subm. Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A., Linguistic cues are privileged over non-linguistic cues in

young children’s categorization.

subm. Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A., Selective pragmatic tolerance towards non-native speakers.

subm. Bosse, S., & Papafragou, A., Does language affect memory for object position? A cross-

linguistic comparison.

subm. Johanson, M., Selimis, S., & Papafragou, A., The Source-Goal asymmetry in spatial

language: Language-general vs. language-specific aspects.

under rev. Gervits, F., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., Labels and intentionality in categorization.

In Preparation

in prep. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., The development of pragmatic abilities. Edited volume

on Pragmatics, CUP.

in prep. Papafragou, A., Acquiring abstract meanings: Evidentiality and the language-cognition

interface. Special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science on Lexical Learning.

in prep. Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A., Children’s use of visual perception and visual inference as

sources of knowledge about events.

in prep. Grigoroglou, M., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., The acquisition of front and back:

Pragmatic factors in spatial language use.

in prep. Wilson, F., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., The structure of complex events: Event roles in

perception and language.

in prep. Ünal, E., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., How children map event participants onto

language.

in prep. Papafragou, A., Viau, J., & Landau, B., The ins and outs of spatial language: Places, paths

and the semantics of negative prepositions.

in prep. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., Events, typicality and listener need in referential

communication.

in prep. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., Informativeness of event descriptions increases in

collaborative contexts.

in prep. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., Revisiting the topological-projective asymmetry in spatial

language.

in prep. Bunger, A., Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A., Verbs and memory for motion events.

in prep. Skordos, D., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., Difficulties in acquiring spatial language: The

case of between.

in prep. Bunger, A., Skordos, D., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., Language-specific effects on

speech planning: Evidence from motion event descriptions.

in prep. Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A., On-line processing of pragmatic infelicities from native and

non-native speakers.

in prep. Bartell, S., & Papafragou, A., The learnability of evidential systems.

Conference Proceedings/Working Papers

2016. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. Are children flexible speakers? Effects of typicality and

listener needs in children's event descriptions. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of

the Cognitive Science Society.

2016. Gervits, F., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. Intentionality and the role of labels in

categorization. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2016. Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A. Monolinguals' and bilinguals' use of language in forming

novel object categories. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science

Society.

2016. Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A., Do children adjust their event descriptions to the needs

of their addressees? Proceedings from Workshop “Trends in Experimental Pragmatics-

TiXPrag1”.

2015. Johannes, K., Wang, J., Papafragou, A., & Landau, B., Similarity and variation in the

distribution of spatial expressions across three languages. Proceedings from the 37

Annual

Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2014. Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A., Scalar inferences in 5-year-olds: the role of alternatives.

Proceedings from the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2013. Unal, E., & Papafragou, A., Linguistic and conceptual representations of inference as a

knowledge source. Proceedings from the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on

Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2012. Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., Information packaging for causative events:

Cross-linguistic differences and implications for language production and attention.

Proceedings from the 36

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2011. Wilson, F., Papafragou, A., Bunger, A., & Trueswell, J., Rapid extraction of event

participants in caused motion events. Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Meeting of the

Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

2011. Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., The influence of conceptual structure on

structural priming. Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science

Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

2011. Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., Effects of labels on children’s category boundaries.

Proceedings from the 35

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2010. Bosse, S., & Papafragou, A., Spatial position in language and visual memory: A cross-

linguistic comparison. Proceedings from the 32

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science

Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

2010. Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A., Extracting paths and manners:

Linguistic and conceptual

biases in the acquisition of spatial language. Proceedings from the 34

Annual Boston

University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2010. Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A., Seeing and saying: The relation between event

apprehension and utterance formulation in children. Proceedings from the 34

Annual Boston

University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2010. Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A., Universality and language specificity in the acquisition of

path vocabulary. Proceedings from the 34

Annual Boston University Conference on

Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2009. Johanson, M., Selimis, S., & Papafragou, A., Cross-linguistic biases in the semantics and

acquisition of spatial language. Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Boston University

Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2009. Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S., On the acquisition of motion verbs cross-linguistically.

Proceedings from the 8

International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ioannina: University

of Ioannina.

2008.

Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A., The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring.

Proceedings from the 32nd

Annual Boston University Conference on Language

Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2007. Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A., The acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish. Proceedings from

the 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics, University of

Pennsylvania.

2007. Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S., Lexical and structural cues for acquiring motion verbs cross-

linguistically. Proceedings from the 31

Annual Boston University Conference on Language

Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2007. Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A., Children’s acquisition of evidentiality. Proceedings from the

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA:

Cascadilla Press.

2007. Papafragou, A., & Ozturk, O., Children’s acquisition of epistemic modality. Proceedings

from GALANA 2. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2006. Papafragou, A., & Ozturk, O., On the acquisition of modality. Proceedings from the 30

Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

2006. Papafragou, A., Massey, C. & Gleitman, L., Motion event conflation and clause structure.

Proceedings from the 39

Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Department of

Linguistics, University of Chicago.

2006. Papafragou, A., and O. Ozturk, The acquisition of epistemic modality. Proceedings of ISCA

Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, University of Athens.

2006. Papafragou, A., Spatial representations in language and thought. Proceedings of ISCA

Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, University of Athens.

2005. Li, P., Abarbanell, L., & Papafragou, A., Spatial reasoning skills in Tenejapan Mayans.

Proceedings from the 27

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ:

Erlbaum.

2003. Papafragou, A., Aspectuality and scalar structure. Proceedings from the 27

Annual Boston

University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2003. Papafragou, A., Aspectuality and scalar implicatures. Proceedings from the 26

Annual Penn

Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

2003. Papafragou, A., Scalar implicatures in language acquisition: Some evidence from Modern

Greek. Proceedings from the 38

Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.

2002. Papafragou, A., & Musolino, J., The pragmatics of number. Proceedings from the 24

Annual

Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

2002. Papafragou, A., & Li, P., Evidential morphology and theory of mind. Proceedings from the

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA:

Cascadilla Press.

2002. Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L., Language and motion. Proceedings from the 5

International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Paris: L' Harmattan.

2002. Papafragou, A. and J. Musolino, Investigations in the acquisition of pragmatics. Proceedings

from the 5

International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Paris: L' Harmattan.

2001. Papafragou, A., C. Massey and L. Gleitman, Motion events in language and cognition.

Proceedings from the 25

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2000. Papafragou, A., Children as mindreaders: The case of indirect speech acts. Current Research

in Language and Communication Science, Vol. 1: Proceedings of the 1999 Child Language

Seminar. London: City University.

2000. Papafragou, A., Early communication: Beyond speech-act theory. Proceedings from the 24

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA:

Cascadilla Press.

2000. Papafragou, A., Talking about the mind: A developmental perspective [In Greek]. Studies in

Greek Linguistics 20. Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Publishers.

1999. Papafragou, A., Relevance-theoretic remarks on modal predicates. Proceedings of the 13th

International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. School of English, Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki.

1999. Papafragou, A., Metaphor and conceptual structure. Proceedings of the 3rd International

Conference on Greek Linguistics. Athens: Ellinika Grammata Publishers.

1998. Papafragou, A., Modal verbs: Towards a unified semantics. Proceedings of the 16th

International Congress of Linguists. Oxford: Elsevier Science.

1998. Papafragou, A., Kinds of modality [In Greek]. Studies in Greek Linguistics 18. Thessaloniki:

Kyriakidis Publishers.

1998. Papafragou, A., Modality and metarepresentation. Proceedings from the 22nd Annual Boston

University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

1998. Papafragou, A., Experience and concept attainment: Some critical remarks. University

College London Working Papers in Linguistics 10, 109-141.

1997. Papafragou, A., Modality in language development: A reconsideration of the evidence.

University College London Working Papers in Linguistics 9, 77-105.

1997. Papafragou, A., The pragmatics of metonymy [In Greek]. Studies in Greek Linguistics 17.

Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Publishers.

1996. Papafragou, A., On generics. University College London Working Papers in Linguistics 8,

165-198.

1995. Papafragou, A., Metonymy and relevance. University College London Working Papers in

Linguistics 7, 141-175.

TALKS

Invited/Plenary Talks

2017. Events, verbs and the language-cognition interface. Workshop on Events, Max Planck

Institute for Psycholinguistics, Niemejen, Holland, 27-28 October.

2017. Pragmatics and cognition. 9

Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Illinois Language

and Linguistics Society, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 31 March-1 April.

2017. Evidence and information in language and thought. Linguistics Lecture Series, University of

Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 30 March.

2017. Pragmatics and cognition. Department of Cognitive Science Colloquium, Johns Hopkins

University, 9 March.

2017. Communication in a cross-linguistic context. Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science

Colloquium, Unversity of Delaware, 24 February.

2017. Communication in a cross-linguistic context. 2

International Conference on Communication

and Cognition, Fribourg, Switzerland, 8-10 February.

2016. Event structure in language and thought. Language and Cognition talk series, Harvard

University, 8 November.

2016. Evidentiality and the language-cognition interface. Department of Linguistics Colloquium,

UCLA, 30 September.

2016. Conversational inference and pragmatic development. Workshop on Intentions in

Communication. Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, Oslo, 25-26 August.

2016. Event categories in cognition and language. Linguistic Association of Canada and the United

States (LACUS) Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2-5 August.

2016. Experimental approaches to evidentiality. CHRONOS conference. Normandie University,

UCBN, France, 15-17 June.

2016. Evidentiality and cognition. Common Ground seminar series, University of Pennsylvania, 20

April.

2015. Evidentiality across languages. Workshop on Expressive Language, University of

Connecticut, 19-20 November.

2015. Events in language and cognition. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Northwestern University, 6

October.

2015. Encoding evidence: cross-linguistic and developmental perspectives. Pre-conference

symposium on Cultural Diversity in Social Learning, Cognitive Development Society

Meeting, Columbus, 8 October.

2015. Evidentiality and the language-cognition interface. Department of Linguistics Colloquium,

University of British Columbia, 27 April.

2015. Cross-linguistic diversity and human cognition. Language and the Interface conference,

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 24-26 April.

2014. Encoding events in language and cognition. MACSIM (Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies

in Meaning), Rutgers University, 18 October.

2014. Events in language and cognition. Workshop on language processing, Princeton University,

11-12 October.

2014. Information sources in language and thought. Conference on ‘Metacognitive diversity: An

Interdisciplinary Approach’, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 24-26 September.

2014. Language and event representations. Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of

Connecticut, 2 May.

2014. Interactions between language and thought. 50

Annual Philosophy Conference (‘Inner

speech’), University of Cincinnati, 27-29 March.

2014. Interactions between language and thought. Social Psychology Brownbag, Department of

Psychology, University of Delaware, 26 March.

2014. Language and event cognition. GURT Panel on Linguistic Relativity, Georgetown

University

, 13-16 March.

2014. Events in language and thought. Jackman Institute Public Lecture Series, University of

Toronto, 7 March.

2014. The acquisition of evidentiality. Psycholinguistics group, University of Toronto, 7 March.

2013. Representations of events: Bridging linguistic and non-linguistic concepts. Logic and

Cognitive Science Initiative Conference on Concepts, NC State University, 20-21 September.

2012. ‘Challenges for the field of language development’ workshop, Max Planck Institute for

Psycholinguistics, 1-2 October (declined).

2012. Linguistic and nonlinguistic representations of events. Tufts Cognitive Science Conference

on ‘Language and Representation’ (Inaugural event for PhD in Cognitive Science), 14-16

September.

2012. Space in language and cognition. Clinical Psychology brownbag, University of Delaware, 29

February.

2011. Word meaning and pragmatic interpretation. Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 18 March.

2011. Eye movements as a window onto event representation. Cognitive Science colloquium,

University of Delaware, 11 February.

2011. Spatial language and spatial representation. Cognitive Science colloquium, Penn State

University, January 14.

2010. How children bridge the gap between word meaning and speaker meaning. ‘Linguistic

Interfaces’ conference, University of Ulster, N. Ireland, 2-4 December.

2010. Space in language and cognition. Distinguished Scholar speaker series, Institute for Cognitive

Science colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder, 8 October.

2010. Relations between semantics and cognition: The case of evidentiality. Dept. of Linguistics

colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder, 7 October.

2010. Evidentiality in language and cognition. Symposium on Semantics and Cognition, Annual

Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, 11 August.

2010. Language acquisition and the semantics-pragmatics distinction. 20

Conference on Semantics

and Linguistic Theory (SALT), University of British Columbia/Simon Fraser University, 28

April – 1 May.

2010. Space in language and thought. Cognitive Science Colloquium, SUNY- Buffalo, 21 April.

2010. Space in language and thought. Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Arizona, 13

March.

2009. Spatial representations in language and cognition: Eye tracking evidence. Temple

University/SILC Spatial Intelligence lecture series, 30 June.

2009. Space in language and cognition. Mayfest Workshop, University of Maryland, 7-8 May.

2009. Language acquisition and the semantics-pragmatics distinction. 45

Annual Meeting of the

Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, 16-18 April. (declined)

2009. Invited discussant in Symposium on Number and Quantification, SRCD Meeting, Denver, 2-

4 April. (unable to attend)

2009. Language acquisition at the interface. Workshop on ‘Language acquisition and interfaces of

cognitive-linguistic modules’, University of Iowa, 30 April-2 May. (declined)

2008. Space in language and cognition. Social Psychology Brown Bag, University of Delaware, 19

November.

2008. Cross-linguistic perspectives on verb representations. Workshop on ‘Verb Concepts:

Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing’, Concordia

University, Montreal, 3-4 October.

2008. Space in language and cognition. Symposium on ‘Language and Space’, 16

Annual Meeting

of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Utrecht University, 26-28 June.

2008. Epistemic assessments in language and cognition. Workshop on ‘Cross-cultural uniformity

and diversity in epistemic assessments’, University of Toronto, 17 May.

2008. Space in language and thought. Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science colloquium,

University of Delaware, 9 May.

2008. Acquiring meaning. Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, 26 April.

2007. Spatial language and cognition. Department of Linguistics, University of Athens, 27

November.

2007. The acquisition of word meaning. Johns Hopkins University, Psycholinguistics Seminar, 17

November.

2006. Invited discussant, Workshop on Theory of Mind. AHRC Project, Sheffield University, 20-22

October.

2006. Spatial representations in language and thought. ISCA Workshop on Experimental

Linguistics, University of Athens, 28-30 August.

2006. Spatial categories in thought and language. Center for Cognitive Science, University of

Minnesota, 20 April.

2006. Word learning and inference. Brain and Language lecture series, UPenn, 5 April.

2006. Space in thought and language. Dept. of Psychology Colloquium series, Lehigh University,

31 March.

2005. Evidential categories in language and cognition. (Papafragou, A. & P. Li). Symposium on

Communication as Source of Information, SRCD Meeting, Atlanta, 7-10 April.

2005. Word meaning and inference. Symposium on ‘Word Learning and the Semantics-Pragmatics

Interface’, SRCD Meeting, Atlanta, 7-10 April.

2005. Word learning and inference. Conference on Experimental Pragmatics, University of

Cambridge, April.

2005. Pragmatics and word learning. Landau Lab talk, Johns Hopkins University, April.

2005. Spatial categories in language and thought. Brain and Language lectures, University of

Pennsylvania, 16 February.

2005. (Mostly on) the psycholinguistics of most. Symposium on ‘Most’, Linguistic Society of

America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 6-9 January.

2004. From word meaning to inference. “Language and thought” workshop, Harvard University, 7

November.

2004. Invited discussant, Workshop on Innateness. Sheffield Innateness Project, Sheffield

University, 2-4 April.

2004. Language and conceptual organization. Dept. of Psychology, University of Delaware, 17

March.

2003. Thought before language. Lunchtime symposium, ‘Language development and linguistic

relativity’, 28

Annual BU Conference on Language Development, 30 October-2 November.

2003. The acquisition of mental state terms. Dept. of Linguistics & Center for Mind and Brain, UC

Davis, 25 February.

2002. Issues in the pragmatics of modality. Copenhagen Modality Symposium, Copenhagen

Business School, Denmark, 28-31 August.

2002. Language acquisition at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Dept. of Linguistics Colloquium

series, University of Delaware, May.

2002. Scalar inferences in language acquisition. Dept. of Linguistics, CNL talk series, University of

Maryland, May.

2002. Scalar implicatures in language acquisition. Penn-Tübingen Workshop, University of

Pennsylvania, April.

2002. Language and motion. Dept. of Psychology, Temple University, February.

2001. Motion and language. Dept. of Psychology Colloquium series, Bryn Mawr College, March.

2001. From words to thoughts? Linguistic relativity and language acquisition. Dept. of Linguistics,

Georgetown University, February.

2000. Motion predicates and the language-cognition interface. Penn-Tübingen Workshop on

Linguistic Data Structures, University of Tübingen, 19-20 December.

2000. Verbal communication and theory of mind. Discussant, Mind and Language Millennial

Workshop on Pragmatics and Cognitive Science, University of Oxford, 29 September-1

October.

2000. Talking and thinking about motion. Computational Linguistics Group, University of

Pennsylvania, May.

1999. Relevance: Theory and applications. Discourse and Computation Seminar, IRCS, University

of Pennsylvania, December.

1999. Pragmatics and relevance. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Athens, June.

1999. Language and theory of mind. Dept. of Methodology, History and Theory of Science

(Cognitive Science lecture series), University of Athens, March.

1999. Issues in the acquisition of modality. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,

February.

1998. Theories and modules. Categories and Concepts Seminar, Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley,

November.

1998. Epistemic modality and theory of mind. Dept. of Psychology, UC Berkeley, November.

Invited Teaching Lectures

2016. Work, life, and how to balance it all. Women and Cognitive Science panel, Cognitive Science

Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August.

2011. Language and thought. 14th Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in

Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, June.

2011. Professional Development Workshop, Center for Language Sciences, Penn State University,

January.

2009. Language and theory of mind. 12

Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in

Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, June.

2009. Events in language and thought. Graduate seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language,

University of Maryland, April.

2008. Space in language and thought. 11

Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in

Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, June.

2006. Language and space. 9

Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive

Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, June.

2006. Neuroscience of language. Graduate seminar in Neuroscience, Dept. of Psychology,

University of Delaware, April.

2004. Scalars: semantics, pragmatics and acquisition. Graduate seminar in Psycholinguistics, Dept.

of Linguistics, University of Delaware, October.

2004. Concepts and categories. 7

Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in

Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, June.

2004. Quantifiers and beyond. Formal semantics and cognitive science, Dept. of Linguistics,

University of Pennsylvania, April.

2003. On categorization in cognitive sciences. 1

Graduate Summer School in Cognitive Sciences,

Institute of Cognitive Sciences, University of Quebec, Montreal, 1-15 July.

2003. Some puzzles in word learning. 6

Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in

Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 9-21 June.

2003. The pragmatics of quantification. Formal semantics and cognitive science, Dept. of

Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, April.

2002. Puzzles in word learning. 5

Annual IRCS/CCN Undergraduate Summer Workshop in

Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3-21 June.

2002. From lexical semantics to utterance interpretation. PhD seminar in Linguistics, Copenhagen

Business School, August.

2001. Language and thought. The meaning of language, Dept. of Linguistics, University of

Pennsylvania, November.

2001. Language and thought. PhD seminar, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Athens, May.

Regular Conference Presentations (talks unless otherwise indicated)

2017. Topological and projective relations in spatial language production. (Grigoroglou, M., & A.

Papafragou) 39

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, 26-29 July. (planned

poster)

2017. How children map event participants onto language. (Ünal, E., Trueswell, J., & A. Papafragou)

Part of Symposium

‘Encoding events in language and cognition’, 14th International Congress for

the Study of Child Language, Lyon, 17-21 July.

2017. Pragmatic inferences and speaker knowledge. (Papafragou, A., C. Friedberg, & M. L. Cohen)

Symposium on “Pragmatic implicature as social inference’. SRCD Biennial Meeting, Austin, 6-8

April.

2017. Children’s adjustments of informativeness during language production. (Grigoroglou, M., & A.

Papafragou) Georgetown University Roundtable in Linguistics, 10-12 March.

2016. Listeners tolerate pragmatic infelicities from non-native speakers. (Fairchild, S. & A. Papafragou)

Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, 17-20 November. (poster).

2016. Universal and language-specific aspects in spatial language development: Revisiting the

topological-projective asymmetry. (Johanson, M., M. Grigoroglou & A. Papafragou) 41st Boston

University Conference on Language Development, 4-6 November.

2016. Informativeness and listeners' needs in children's event descriptions. (Grigoroglou, M., & A.

Papafragou) 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development, 4-6 November

(poster).

2016. Children’s informativeness in event descriptions. (Grigoroglou, M., & A. Papafragou) 6th Mid-

Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning, NYU, 1 October (poster).

2016. Are children flexible speakers? Effects of typicality and listener needs in children's event

descriptions. (Grigoroglou, M., & A. Papafragou) 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science

Society, Philadelphia, 10-13 August. (poster)

2016. Intentionality and the role of labels in categorization. (Gervits, F., M. Johanson, & A. Papafragou)

38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, 10-13 August. (poster)

2016. Monolinguals' and bilinguals' use of language in forming novel object categories. (Fairchild, S., &

A. Papafragou) 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, 10-13

August. (poster)

2016. Flexible expectations of speaker informativeness shape pragmatic inference. (Fairchild, S., & A.

Papafragou) 40th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference, 18-20 March.

2016. Foreign accent affects pragmatic inference. (Fairchild, S., & A. Papafragou) 29

Annual CUNY

Sentence Processing Conference, Gainesville, Florida, 3-5 March (poster).

2016. Event role identification in language and cognition. (Ünal, E., J. Trueswell, & A. Papafragou)

Workshop on Events in Language and Cognition, Gainesville, Florida, 3 March (poster).

2016. Do children adjust their event descriptions to the needs of their addressees? (Grigoroglou, M., &

A. Papafragou) “Trends in Experimental Pragmatics” Workshop, Berlin, 16-18 January.

2015. Pragmatic factors in the acquisition of spatial language. (Grigoroglou, M., M. Johanson, & A.

Papafragou) 5th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning, University of Delaware, 3

October.

2015. Verbal labels facilitate categorization of dissimilar objects. (Fairchild, S. & A. Papafragou) 56

Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, 19-22 November (poster).

2015. The acquisition of front and back: Conceptual vs. pragmatic factors. (Grigoroglou, M., M.

Johanson & A. Papafragou) 40

Boston University Conference on Language Development, 13-15

November.

2015. Cross-linguistic variation and the learnability of semantic systems. (Bartell, S., & A. Papafragou)

Boston University Conference on Language Development, 13-15 November.

2015. The relation between evidentiality and source monitoring. (Ünal, E., & A. Papafragou) Biennial

Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, 9-11 October (poster).

2015. The relationship between linguistic and conceptual event roles: A cross-linguistic investigation.

(Ünal, E., F. Wilson, J. Trueswell & A. Papafragou) Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive

Development Society, Columbus, 9-11 October (poster).

2015. Similarity and variation in the distribution of spatial expressions across three languages.

(Johannes, K., J., Wang, A. Papafragou, & B. Landau) Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science

Society, 23-25 July, Pasadena (poster).

2015. Pragmatic inference in children: reasoning about scalar alternatives. (Skordos, D., & A.

Papafragou). Symposium on “Mechanisms of pragmatic development in language

comprehension”. SRCD Biennial Meeting, 19-21 March, Philadelphia.

2015. When children fail to use syntax to learn novel prepositions. (Skordos, D., M. Johanson & A.

Papafragou) SRCD Biennial Meeting, 19 – 21 March, Philadelphia (poster).

2015. Spatial language universals and cross-linguistic encoding. (Grigoroglou, M., M. Johanson, & A.

Papafragou) SRCD Biennial Meeting, 19-21 March, Philadelphia (poster).

2015. Conceptual factors in the acquisition of evidentiality. (Ünal, E., & A. Papafragou) SRCD Biennial

Meeting, 19-21 March, Philadelphia (poster).

2014. Homologies between language and event cognition. (Wilson, F., E. Ünal, J. Trueswell & A.

Papafragou) 39

Boston University Conference on Language Development, 7-9 November.

2014. Linking conversational inferences to the speaker’s knowledge state. (Papafragou, A., C. Friedberg

& M. Cohen) 39

Boston University Conference on Language Development, 7-9 November.

2014. Production-comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition: The case of evidential

morphology. (Ünal, E. & A. Papafragou) 38th Boston University Conference on Language

Development, 7-9 November.

2014. Developmental and linguistic influences on the cross-linguistic encoding of causative events.

(Bunger, A., D. Skordos, J. Trueswell & A. Papafragou) 13th International Conference of the

Association for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, 19-24 July (talk at symposium).

2014. The acquisition of evidentiality. (Ünal, E. & A. Papafragou) 13

International Conference of the

Association for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, 19-24 July (poster).

2013. The ins and outs of spatial language: Places, paths and negative spatial prepositions. (Papafragou,

A., J. Viau & B. Landau) 38

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,

Boston, 1-3 November.

2013. Scalar inferences in 5-year-olds: the role of alternatives. (Skordos, D. & A. Papafragou) 38

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 1-3 November.

2013. Perception and inference as sources of knowledge in oneself and others. (Ünal, E. &

A.Papafragou) Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, 18-19 October

(poster).

2013. Children’s evaluation of inference as a source of knowledge in themselves and others. (Ünal, E. &

A. Papafragou) 25th APS Annual Convention, Washington, DC, 23-26 May (poster).

2013. Monitoring sources of event memories: Does native language play a role? (Ünal, E., A. Pinto, A.

Bunger & A. Papafragou) 25th APS Annual Convention, Washington, DC, 23-26 May (poster).

2013. Complexities in mapping spatial terms o

nto spatial referents: The case of ‘between’. (Skordos, D.,

M. Johanson & A. Papafragou) Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Seattle, 18-20 April (poster).

2013. Categorization in preschoolers: The influence of labels and facts. (Johanson, M. & A. Papafragou)

Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, 18-20 April (poster).

2013. Implicit contrast to the stronger alternative improves scalar implicature generation in 5-year-old

children. (Skordos, D. & A. Papafragou). Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development,

10-12 January. (poster)

2013. Cross-linguistic differences in event description and inspection in preschool speakers of English

and Greek. (Bunger, A., D. Skordos, J. Trueswell & A.Papafragou). 87

Annual Meeting of the

Linguistic Society of America, Boston, 3-6 January.

2012. Categorization in children: The role of labels and facts. (Johanson, M. & A. Papafragou)

Cognitive Science Ph.D. inaugural conference, Tufts University, 14-16 September (poster).

2012. Getting the gist of events: Rapid identification of two-participant actions. (Hafri, A., A.

Papafragou & J. Trueswell) 53

Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, 15-18

November (poster).

2012. Linguistic and conceptual representations of inference as a knowledge source. (Unal, E. & A.

Papafragou) 37

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2-4

November.

2011. Information packaging for causative events: Cross-linguistic differences and implications for

language production and attention. (Bunger, A., J. Trueswell & A.Papafragou) 36

Annual

Boston University Conference on Language Development, 4-6 November.

2011. Lexical alternatives improve 5-year-olds' ability to compute scalar implicatures. (Skordos, D. &

A. Papafragou) 36

Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 4-6

November (poster).

2011. The development of spatial language: Asymmetries between Containment and Support. (Viau, J.,

B. Landau & A. Papafragou.) 36

Annual Boston University Conference on Language

Development, 4-6 November (poster).

2011. Mapping event participants to linguistic structure (Wilson, F., A. Papafragou & J.Trueswell).

Structuring the Argument: A Multidisciplinary Workshop on the Mental Representation of Verbal

Argument Structure, 5-7 September, Paris (poster).

2011. Rapid extraction of event participants in caused motion events (Wilson, F., A. Papafragou, A.

Bunger & J.Trueswell). 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 21-23 July

(poster).

2011. The influence of conceptual structure on structural priming. (Bunger, A., J. Trueswell & A.

Papafragou, A.). 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 21-23 July (poster).

2011. Rapid extraction of event participants in caused motion events. (Wilson, F., A. Papafragou, A.

Bunger & J. Trueswell) Society for Philosophy and Psychology Meeting, Montreal, 6-10 July.

2011. The gist of events: Implications for language production and scene description. (Hafri, A., A.

Papafragou & J. Trueswell) CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Stanford, 24-26

March (poster).

2011. Event apprehension during utterance preparation in children: Evidence from English and Greek.

(Bunger, A., J. Trueswell & A. Papafragou) Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Montreal, 31 March-3 April.

2011. The influence of conceptual structure on syntactic priming. (Bunger, A., A. Papafragou &

J.Trueswell) 85

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburg, 6-9 January.

2011. Do children use labels to discern category boundaries? (Johanson, M. & A. Papafragou,) 85

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburg, 6-9 January.

2010. Effects of labels on children’s category boundaries (Johanson, M. & A. Papafragou) 35

Annual

Boston University Conference on Language Development, 6-9 November.

2010. The role of information structure during syntactic priming (Bunger, A., A. Papafragou & J.

Trueswell) Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing,

University of York, 6-8 September.

2010. Spatial position in language and visual memory: A cross-linguistic comparison (Bosse, S. & A.

Papafragou) 32

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, 12-14 August.

2010. Why it’s hard to think outside the box: A new asymmetry in the use of locative prepositions

(Papafragou, A., J. Viau & B. Landau) 84

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,

Baltimore, 7-10 January.

2010. Event apprehension for language production in children (Bunger, A., J. Trueswell & A.

Papafragou) 84

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, 7-10 January.

2009. Extracting paths and manners: Linguistic and conceptual biases in the acquisition of spatial

language (Skordos, D. & A. Papafragou) 34

Annual Boston University on Language

Development, 6-8 November.

2009. Seeing and saying: The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation in children

(Bunger, A., J. Trueswell & A. Papafragou) 34

Annual Boston University on Language

Development, 6-8 November.

2009. Universality and language specificity in the acquisition of path vocabulary (Johanson, M. & A.

Papafragou) 34

Annual Boston University on Language Development, 6-8 November.

2009. The acquisition of motion vocabulary (Johanson, M., S. Selimis & A. Papafragou) 9

International Conference on Greek Linguistics, University of Chicago, 29 October-1 November.

2009. What you see is not what you get: Event apprehension

and utterance formulation in children and adults (Bunger, A., A. Papafragou & J. Trueswell)

Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP),

Barcelona, 7-9 September.

2009. Cross-linguistic differences in event perception: Evidence from dual tasks (Papafragou, A. & J.

Trueswell) 35

Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Indiana

University, 12-14 June.

2009. Positional verbs and memory for location: A comparison of English and German (Bosse, S. & A.

Papafragou) Workshop on ‘Language acquisition and interfaces of cognitive-linguistic modules’,

University of Iowa, 30 April-2 May (poster).

2009. Evidentiality in language acquisition. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou) Workshop on ‘Language

acquisition and interfaces of cognitive-linguistic modules’, University of Iowa, 30 April-2 May.

2009. The semantics and acquisition of containment terms: Cross-linguistic evidence (Papafragou, A.,

M. Johanson & S. Selimis) Paper Symposium on ‘Spatial language and cognition: Cross-

linguistic and developmental perspectives’, SRCD Meeting, Denver, 2-4 April.

2009. Evidentiality and the Language-Cognition Interface. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou) 19th

Colloquium on Generative Grammar, University of the Basque Country, 1-3 April (poster).

2009. Perceiving and remembering events: Are there cross-linguistic differences? (Trueswell, J. & A.

Papafragou) 22

Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC

Davis, 26-28 March (poster).

2009. Over-extension patterns in spatial language: The case of containment. (Johanson, M., S. Selimis

& A. Papafragou) 83

Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, 8-11

January.

2008. In a manner of speaking, thinking and seeing: Attention allocation during event perception.

(Trueswell, J. & A. Papafragou) 49

Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, 13-

16 November.

2008. Cross-linguistic biases in the semantics and acquisition of spatial language. (Johanson, M., S.

Selimis & A. Papafragou) 33rd

Annual Boston University on Language Development, 30

October-2 November.

2008. Children’s understanding of the link between speaker knowledge and utterance content.

(Papafragou, A.) Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models 2, Brussels, 19-21

July.

2008. Evidentiality and source monitoring in Turkish. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 32

Annual Penn

Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn, 22-24 February.

2008. Source-goal asymmetries in language acquisition and memory. (Papafragou, A.) 82

Annual LSA

Meeting, Chicago, 3-5 January.

2008. Source monitoring and the acquisition of evidentiality. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 82

Annual

LSA Meeting, Chicago, 3-5 January.

2007. The acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 32

Annual Boston

University on Language Development, 2-4 November.

2007. Spatial asymmetries in language and memory. (Papafragou, A.) 32

Annual Boston University on

Language Development, 2-4 November.

2007. The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 4

Hopkins

Workshop on Language (HOWL), 12-14 October (poster).

2007. On the cross-linguistic acquisition of motion verbs. (Papafragou, A. & S. Selimis). 8

International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Ioannina, Greece, 29 August - 1 September.

2007. The acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish. (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 31

Annual Penn

Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn, 23-25 February.

2007. How do you know? Evidentiality in Turkish (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 81st Annual LSA

Meeting, Anaheim, 4-7 January.

2007. Modality and the development of the semantics-pragmatics interface (Papafragou, A. & O.

Ozturk). 81st Annual LSA Meeting, Anaheim, 4-7 January.

2006. Lexical and structural cues for acquiring motion verbs cross-linguistically (Papafragou, A. & S.

Selimis). 31st Annual Boston University on Language Development, 3-5 November.

2006. Evidentiality and theory of mind (Ozturk, O. & A. Papafragou). 31st Annual Boston University

on Language Development, 3-5 November (poster).

2006. The acquisition of modality (Papafragou, A. & O. Ozturk). ISCA Workshop on Experimental

Linguistics, University of Athens, 28-30 August.

2006. Children’s acquisition of epistemic modality (Papafragou, A. & O. Ozturk). GALANA 2, McGill

University, Canada, 17-19 August.

2006. Mapping event perception onto language: Evidence from eye movements (Papafragou, A., J.

Hulbert & J. Trueswell). 19

Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New

York, 21-23 March (poster).

2006. Children’s comprehension of epistemic modality. (Papafragou, A. & O. Ozturk) 30

Annual Penn

Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn, 24-26 February.

2006. Mapping event perception onto language: Evidence from eye movements (Papafragou, A., J.

Trueswell & J. Hulbert). 80

Annual LSA Meeting, Albuquerque, 5-8 January.

2005. The acquisition of evidentiality in Korean (Li, P., A. Papafragou, C. Han & Y. Choi). XI

International Congress on Child Language, Berlin, 26-29 July.

2005. Spatial language and reasoning in Tseltal Mayan (Abarbanell, L., P. Li & A. Papafragou) XI

International Congress on Child Language, Berlin, 26-29 July.

2005. Spatial reasoning in Tenejapan Mayans. (Abarbanell, L., P. Li & A. Papafragou). 27

Annual

Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Italy, 21-24 July (poster).

2005. Event representation in language and cognition (Papafragou, A.) 27

Annual Meeting of the

Cognitive Science Society, Italy, 21-24 July.

2005. Spatial language and reasoning in Tseltal Mayan (Abarbanell, L., P. Li & A. Papafragou). 17

APS Annual Convention, Los Angeles, 26-29 May.

2005. Spatial language and reasoning in Tseltal (Abarbanell, L., P. Li & A. Papafragou). 79

Annual

LSA Meeting, Oakland, 6-10 January.

2004. Learning evidential morphology (Li, P., A. Papafragou, C. Han & Y. Choi). 29

Annual Boston

University on Language Development, 4-6 November.

2004. How children acquire mental verbs (Papafragou, A., K. Cassidy, L. Gleitman & J. Hulbert). 29

Annual Boston University on Language Development, 4-6 November.

2004. From event cognition to language production (Papafragou, A., C. Massey & L. Gleitman). 17

Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Maryland, 25-27 March (poster).

2004. The acquisition of evidentiality (Papafragou, A., P. Li & Ch. Han). 78

Annual LSA Meeting,

Boston, 8-11 January.

2004. ‘Most’ wanted (Papafragou, A. & N. Schwarz). 78

Annual LSA Meeting, Boston, 8-11 January.

2003. Observational and syntactic support for the acquisition of mental verbs (Cassidy, K., A.

Papafragou & L. Gleitman). 28

Annual BU Conference on Language Development, Boston, 30

October - 2 November.

2003. The kinematics of motion (Papafragou, A., C. Massey & L. Gleitman). 6

International

Conference on Greek Linguistics, Crete, 18-20 September.

2003. Contextual scales and pragmatic inference (Papafragou, A. & N. Tantalou). 6

International

Conference on Greek Linguistics, Crete, 18-20 September.

2003. Lexical meaning and pragmatic inference: A view from language acquisition. (Papafragou, A.)

International Pragmatics Association Meeting, Toronto, 13-18 July.

2003. Aspectuality, scalar implicature and the semantics-pragmatics interface. (Papafragou, A.)

Workshop on Polarity, Scalar Phenomena and Implicature, Milan, 18-20 June.

2003. Motion event structure and clause conflation (Papafragou, A, C. Massey & L. Gleitman). 39

Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, 10-12 April.

2003. Learning mental predicates (Cassidy, K., A. Papafragou & L. Gleitman. 39

Annual Meeting of

the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, 10-12 April.

2003. Aspectual semantics and conversational inference. (Papafragou, A.) 16

Annual CUNY

Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, 27-29 March (poster).

2003. Context and scalar inference (Papafragou, A. & N. Tantalou). 27

Annual Penn Linguistics

Colloquium, 21-23 February.

2003. Children’s comprehension of scalar expressions. (Papafragou, A.) Georgetown University

Roundtable in Linguistics, 13-15 February.

2003. The semantics and pragmatics of evidentiality in child language (Papafragou, A., P. Li & S.

Yang). Georgetown University Roundtable in Linguistics, 13-15 February.

2003. Aspectuality and conversational implicature. (Papafragou, A.) 77

Annual LSA Meeting, Atlanta,

2-5 January.

2003. Number/quantifier asymmetries in language acquisition. (Papafragou, A., F. Hurewitz, L.

Gleitman & R. Gelman) 77

Annual LSA Meeting, Atlanta, 2-5 January.

2002. Aspectuality and scalar structure. (Papafragou, A.) 27

Annual BU Conference on Language

Development, Boston, 1-3 November.

2002. The acquisition of numbers and quantifiers. (Hurewitz, F., A. Papafragou, L. Gleitman & R.

Gelman) 27

Annual BU Conference on Language Development, Boston, 1-3 November.

2002. The pragmatics of number (Papafragou, A. & J. Musolino). 24

Annual Meeting of the Cognitive

Science Society, George Mason University, 8-10 August (poster).

2002. Language acquisition at the semantics-pragmatics interface (Musolino, J. & A. Papafragou). IXth

International Conference for the Study of Child Language, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 16-

21 July.

2002. Scalar inferences and telicity in language acquisition. (Papafragou, A.) 5

Chronos Colloquium

on Tense, Aspect and Modality, Groningen, 19-21 June.

2002. Scalar inferences: Developing abilities at the Semantics-Pragmatics interface (Papafragou,

A., & J. Musolino). International Conference on 'Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Perspectives into

the 21

Century', Athens, 21-24 May.

2002. The kinematics of motion (Papafragou, A., C. Massey & L. Gleitman). International Conference

'Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Perspectives into the 21

Century', Athens, 21-24 May.

2002. The acquisition of evidentiality in Korean (Papafragou A, P. Li & S. Yang). 38

Annual Meeting

of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, 25-27 April.

2002. Scalar implicatures in language acquisition: Some evidence from Modern Greek. (Papafragou, A.)

Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago, 25-27 April.

2002. The computation of scalar implicatures during language comprehension: A developmental

perspective (Papafragou, A. & J. Musolino). 15

Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence

Processing, New York, 21-23 March (poster).

2002. Quantity implicatures in child language. (Papafragou, A.) 26

Annual Penn Linguistics

Colloquium, 1-3 March.

2002. The acquisition of scalar implicatures (Papafragou, A. & J. Musolino). 75

Annual LSA Meeting,

San Francisco, 3-6 January.

2001. Evidential morphology and theory of mind (Papafragou, A. & P. Li). 26

Annual BU Conference

on Language Development, Boston, 2-4 November.

2001. Language and motion (Papafragou, A., C. Massey & L. Gleitman). 5

International Conference

on Greek Linguistics, Paris, 13-15 September.

2001. Investigations in the acquisition of pragmatics (Papafragou, A. & J. Musolino). 5

International

Conference on Greek Linguistics, Paris, 13-15 September.

2001. Cross-linguistic encoding of motion: Are there nonlinguistic implications? (Papafragou, A., C.

Massey & L. Gleitman). 14

Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,

University of Pennsylvania, 15-17 March (poster).

2001. Language and conceptual representation: A cross-linguistic study of motion (Papafragou, A., C.

Massey & L. Gleitman). 25

Penn Linguistics Colloquium (Special Session: Empirical Data and

Linguistic Theory), 3-4 March.

2000. Motion events in language and cognition (Papafragou, A., C. Massey & L. Gleitman). 25th

Annual BU Conference on Language Development, 3-5 November.

2000. Shake, rattle, 'n' roll. (Papafragou, A.) P-IRCS Fest, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania, May.

1999. Early communication: Beyond speech-act theory. (Papafragou, A.) 24th Annual BU Conference

on Language Development, 5-7 November.

1999. Children as mindreaders: The case of indirect speech acts. (Papafragou, A.) Child Language

Seminar, City University, London, 2-4 September.

1999. 'Can you pass the salt?' Some developmental remarks. (Papafragou, A.) LAGB Autumn Meeting,

University of York, 7-9 September.

1999. Remarks on the semantics and pragmatics of modality. (Papafragou, A.) 13th International

Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 22-24

April.

1999. Talking about the mind: A developmental perspective. (Papafragou, A.) 20th Annual Meeting of

the Department of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 23-25 April.

1998. Metaphor and cognition. (Papafragou, A.) 4th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse,

and Language, Emory University, Atlanta, 10-12 October.

1998. Another look at short-circuited implicatures. (Papafragou, A.) LAGB Spring Meeting, University

of Lancaster, 14-16 April.

1998. Conventionality, standardisation and politeness. (Papafragou, A.) 12th Sociolinguistics

Symposium, Institute of Education, London, 26-28 March.

1997. Modality and metarepresentation. (Papafragou, A.) 22nd Annual BU Conference on Language

Development, 7-9 November.

1997. Metaphor and conceptual structure. (Papafragou, A.) 3rd International Conference on Greek

Linguistics, University of Athens, 25-27 September.

1997. Modal expressions in early child language. (Papafragou, A.) LAGB Autumn Meeting, University

of Hertfordshire, 4-6 September.

1997. Modal verbs: Towards a unitary semantics. (Papafragou, A.) 16th International Congress of

Linguists, Paris, 20-25 July.

1997. Kinds of modality [In Greek]. (Papafragou, A.) 18th Annual Meeting of the Department of

Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 May.

1996. Indirect requests: A Relevance-theoretic reappraisal. (Papafragou, A.) LAGB Autumn Meeting,

University of Cardiff, 7-9 September.

1996. Modality and the semantics/pragmatics interface. (Papafragou, A.) 5th International Pragmatics

Conference (panel: Relevance Theory: Some basic distinctions), Mexico City, 4-9 July.

1996. The pragmatics of metonymy [In Greek]. (Papafragou, A.) 17th Annual Meeting of the

Department of Linguistics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 22-24 April.

1995. The comprehension of metonymy. (Papafragou, A.) LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of

Essex, 17-19 September.