Peer-Reviewed talks

• 2020 Breheny, R., Sun, C., Gotzner, N., & Benz, A. Diverse mechanisms explain scalar diversity. AG 13: Diversity in pragmatic inferences: experimental data, computational models, and the semantics/pragmatics interface. DGfS-Jahrestagung 2020. Universität Hamburg. March 5-6.
• 2019 Sun, C., Breheny, R., & Rothschild, D. Exploring the existential/universal ambiguity in singular donkey sentences. Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück University. September 4-6.
• 2019 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Another look at the online processing of scalar inferences: an investigation of conicting ndings from visual-world eye-tracking studies. Attentive Listener in the Visual World (AttLis) 2019, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. August 28-30.
• 2018 Breheny, R. & Sun, C. Exploring the existential/universal ambiguity in singular donkey sentences. Workshop: The pragmatics of quantiers: implicature and presupposition – experiment and theory, ZAS, Berlin.
• 2017 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Shared mechanism underlying non-embedded and embedded enrichments: Evidence from enrichment priming. Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Berlin. September 7-9.

Peer-Reviewed posters

• 2020 Sun, C., Spalek, K., & Breheny, R. Investigating the use of alternatives in incremental processing. The 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Potsdam. September 3rd-5th
• 2020 Breheny, R., Gonzales De Linares,B., Qin, E., & Sun, C. What the inference task tells us about numbers, and what numbers can tell us about the inference task. The 33rd annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, UMass Amherst. March 19-21.
• 2020 Sun, C., Spalek, K., & Breheny, R. The use of alternatives in incremental processing. The 33rd annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, UMass Amherst. March 19- 21.
• 2019 Sun, C., Koch, X., & Spalek, K. Individual dierences in focus processing. The 25th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Moscow. September 6-8.
• 2019 Sun, C., Koch, X., & Spalek, K. The processing of focus: perception, comprehension and production. The 8th Experimental Pragmatics conference, University of Edinburgh. June 19-21.
• 2019 van Tiel, B., Pankratz, E., & Sun, C. Scales and scalarity: processing scalar inferences. The 8th Experimental Pragmatics conference, University of Edinburgh. June 19-21.
• 2018 van Tiel, B., Pankratz, E., & Sun, C. Scalar diversity: a processing perspective. Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. September 5-7.
• 2018 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Approaching scalar diversity through (RSA with) Lexical Uncertainty. The 31st annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of California, Davis. March 15-17.
• 2017 Sun, C., Breheny, R., & Tian, Y. Rates of scalar inferences beyond ‘some’ – A corpus study. The 7th biannual Experimental Pragmatics Conference, Cologne. June 21-23.
• 2017 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. On the compositional interpretation of scalar quantiers: the role of the residue set. Poster presentation. The 30th annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, MIT, Cambridge MA.
• 2016 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. What would a compositional hearer do? - controlling for prior expectations in visual world timecourse studies. The 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Bilbao, Spain. September 1-3.
• 2016 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Homogeneity and enrichability aect scalar processing. Logic in Language and in Conversation workshop, Utrecht. September 19-20.
• 2015 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Pragmatic ‘some’ was rapid, controlling perceptual and typicality dierences. Poster presentation. The 21st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Valletta, Malta. September 3-5.
• 2015 Sun, C. & Breheny, R. Diverse factors for scalar diversity. Poster presentation. The 28th annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Los Angeles, CA. March 19-21

Invited Presentations

• 2019 Sun, C., Spalek, K, & Breheny, R. Alternatives in online processing. Psycholinguistics Colloquim, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• 2019 Sun, C. On the interpretation and processing of scalar implicatures. Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai.
• 2018 Sun, C. Scalar Implicature: Grice Reasoning and Local Enrichment. Semantics circle, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin.
• 2017 Sun, C. On the compositional interpretation of scalar quantiers: The role of the residue set. School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.