Programme for LMC Workshop 'MK40'

Friday 25 June 2021

Time	Activity	Speaker
12.15	Welcome
12.30	Invited speaker	Bart Geurts
	Common ground as a normative condition
13.30	Humans and apes create social closeness by co-attending to the same thing in close proximity, but only humans create additional closeness through establishing common ground about this experience being shared.	Wouter Wolf
14.00	Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children	Barbora Siposova, Sebastian Grueneisen, Katharina Helming, Michael Tomasello and Malinda Carpenter
14.30	Break
14.50	Invited speaker	Malinda Carpenter
	What is common knowledge, and what (else) is it good for?
15.50	Poster Session 1	Lightning talk videos
16.50	Break
17.10	Invited speaker	Harvey Lederman
	Publicity and Precursive Faith
18.10	An Externalist Account of Perceptual Common Knowledge	Axel Seemann
18.40	Speaker adjustments to addressees during language production	Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou
19.10	Break
19:30	Introduction to Neil Smith Lecture	Deirdre Wilson
19.35	Invited speaker	Herbert H. Clark
	The Neil Smith Lecture – sponsored by Mind & Language How do we manage the uncertainty inherent in communication?
20:35	Round Table discussion

Saturday 26 June 2021

Time	Activity	Speakers/authors
12.30	Invited speakers	Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson
	Rethinking Common Ground
13.30	Perceiving commitments: When we both know that you are counting on me	Francesca Bonalumi, John Michael and Christophe Heintz
14.00	Preschoolers’ sensitivity to knowledge differences about object existence and object identity in real-time language processing	Narae Ju, Elizabeth Morin-Lessard, Craig Chambers and Susan Graham
14.30	Break
14.50	Invited speaker	Daphna Heller
	Cognitive mechanisms for sentence processing: From common ground to multiple perspectives.
15.50	Poster Session 2	Lightning talk videos
16.50	Break
17.10	Invited speaker	Henrike Moll
	How Infants and Toddlers Use Joint Experience To Recover Reference.
18.10	Assertion is weak	Matthew Mandelkern and Kevin Dorst
18.40	Joint Attention and Communication	Rory Harder
19.10	Break
19.30	Invited speaker	Mandy Simons
	What Common Ground Cannot Do
20:30	Round Table discussion

Poster Session 1

Friday 25 June 2021, 15:50 BST. All presentations run simultaneously

Breakout room	Title (link to abstract)	Speakers/authors
1	Common Knowledge Promotes Cooperation in the Threshold Public Goods Game by Reducing Uncertainty	Paul Deutchman, Dorsa Amir, Matthew Jordan and Katherine McAuliffe	View lightning talk
2	Preschoolers’ use of emotional prosody to resolve communicative ambiguity as a function of speaker conventionality	Karolina Wieczorek, Elizabeth Morin-Lessard, Craig Chambers and Susan Graham	View presentation (pdf) View presentation (pdf)
3	The early emergence of belief justification in young children	lldikó Király, Réka Schvajda, Mikolaj Hernik, Pierre Jacob, Dan Sperber and Gergely György	View presentation (pdf) View presentation (pdf)
4	Communicating for knowledge: pre-verbal infants actively and selectively seek information from others in epistemic uncertainty	Marina Bazhydai	View lightning talk
5	Establishing a common locus of attention in mother-infant-dyads: British and Ugandan infants’ early responding to joint attention skills in response to naturalistic maternal attention directing signals	Joanna Buryn-Weitzel, Maisie Thurman, Ed Donnellan, Kirsty Graham, Maggie Hoffman, Eve Holden, Charlotte Knapper, Nicole Lahiff, Sophie Marshall, Gideon Salter, Claudia Wilke, and Katie Slocombe	View lightning talk
6	We know that we don’t know - Children’s understanding of common ignorance in a coordination game	Lucy Liu, Malinda Carpenter and Juan Carlos-Gomez	View lightning talk
7	The development of joint attention and communication from 6 to 10 months of age	Gideon Salter and Malinda Carpenter	View lightning talk
8	The role of visual perspective-taking in pragmatic inferencing	Elspeth Wilson, Blanche Gonzalez De Linares, Ekaterina Ostachenko and Napolean Katsos	View lightning talk
9	Effects of “We”-framing on Young Children’s Commitment, Sharing, and Helping	Jared Vasil and Michael Tomasello	View lightning talk
10	Children's interpretation of ambiguous pronouns based on prior discourse	Manuel Bohn, Khuyen Nha Le, Benjamin Peloquin, Bahar Koymen and Michael Frank	View lightning talk
11	Grammatical encoding of shared knowledge: towards a cross-linguistic typology	Eva Schultze-Berndt, Karolina Crzech and Henrik Bergqvist:	View lightning talk

Poster Session 2

Saturday 26 June 2021, 15:50 BST. All presentations run simultaneously

Breakout room	Title (link to abstract)	Speakers/Authors
1	Intersentential Anaphora and Situation Pragmatics	Lukas Lewerentz	View lightning talk
2	Speakers extrapolate community-level knowledge from individual linguistic encounters	Anita Tobar, Hugh Rabagliati and Holly Branigan:	View lightning talk
3	Lewis on common knowledge: reasoning with reasons	Huub Vromen	View lightning talk
4	Evolutionary pragmatics: A diachronic view of Common Ground	Paula Rubio-Fernandez	View lightning talk
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6	Cooperation with Police as Non-Cooperative Pragmatics	Marina Weinstein, Danielle Dionne, Nathaniel Graham and Dylan Pato, Elizabeth Coppock
7	Performative and Informative Update in Assertions	Manfred Krifka	View lightning talk
8	Factivity, prosody, and at-issueness: Investigating the projection behavior of (non-)factives	Taylor Mahler, Catherine Lai and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe	View lightning talk
9	I didn’t mean to suggest anything like that!’: Plausible deniability and context re-construction	Diana Mazzarella	View lightning talk
10	Tracking disruptions of common ground for belief attribution and update	Agnes Kovacs, Frances Buttleman and Dora Fogd	View lightning talk
11	Pronoun interpretation in the context of dynamic action: A test of the retrieval hypothesis	Tiana Simovic and Craig Chambers	View lightning talk
12	How people establish reference in three-party conversation	Xiaobei Zheng, Zhi Xia and Yuxiu Han	View presentation (pdf) View presentation (pdf)
13	Loosening repair in language logicality	Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Uli Sauerland	View lightning talk