Dr. Chao Sun

Dr. Chao Sun is a researcher in the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics' and a Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow with the project "Scalar diversity: relevance and prior probability (Scaldiv)".

Sun is interested in how listeners reason about speakers' intended meaning from what is said. She has worked on topics such as conversational implicatures and focus alternatives, typically using psycholinguistic techniques to examine the underlying mechanisms of language comprehension.