Peer-reviewed talks
Macuch Silva, V., & Jamieson, E (2021, March). Processing polar questions in context with varying epistemic biases in English. 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia. [abstract]
Macuch Silva, V., & Jamieson, E (2021, February). Processing polar questions in context with varying epistemic biases in English. Workshop on Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling, Berlin. [abstract]
Roberts, F., Macuch Silva, V., & Rohde, H. (2020, July [postponed to July 2021]). Non-actual ‘actual’: Expectations for upcoming figurative language arise from cues about message truth. 5th Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv. [abstract]
Macuch Silva, V., Roberts, F., & Rohde, H. (2020, June [postponed to January 2021]). Do truth-endorsing adjectives act as cues to non-literality in the processing of modified metaphors? A psycholinguistic investigation of English ‘actual’, ‘literal’, and ‘real’. TExMod2020: Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification, Tübingen. [abstract]
Macuch Silva, V., & Franke, M. (2018, June). Reading quantified expressions in context: Does pragmatic surprisal or strategic attention allocation predict self-paced reading times? Workshop on The pragmatics of quantifiers: implicature and presupposition – experiment and theory, Berlin.
Macuch Silva, V., Holler, J., Özyürek, A., & Roberts, S. G. (2018). Modality-specific effects on language emergence - and why looking at interaction also matters. In H. Little & A. Micklos (Eds.), The proceedings of the evolang xii modality matters workshop, 16 April, 2018. [abstract]
Macuch Silva, V., Roberts, S., Holler, J., & Özyürek, A. (2017, September). An experimental study of multimodal communication and early language emergence. Protolang 5, Barcelona. [abstract]
Macuch Silva, V., & Roberts, S. (2016) Exploring the Role of Interaction in the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. In S. Roberts & G. Mills (Eds.) Proceedings of EvoLang XI, Language Adapts to Interaction Workshop, 21 March, 2016. [abstract]
Conference posters
Macuch Silva, V., Cummins, C., & Franke, M. (2020, July). Modeling manipulative language use. Poster presented at CogSci 2020 Virtual Conference. [abstract] [poster]
Macuch Silva, V., & Franke, M. (2019, November). Do the German discourse particles eigentlich and tatsächlich modulate online expectations about intended meaning? Poster presented at the XPrag.de Annual Meeting, Berlin. [poster]
Macuch Silva, V., & Roberts, S. (2016, April). Language Adapts To Signal Disruption In Interaction. In S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11). [abstract]
Macuch Silva, V., & Roberts, S. (2015, June). Does repair affect the emergence of structure in language? Poster presented at TABU Dag, Groningen. [poster]