Upcoming presentations
Macuch-Silva, V., & Carrol, G. (2025, September). He’s a real weasel: Interpreting metaphors with conventionalized markers of stance and deriving non-literal meaning. The 11th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics, Cambridge.
Macuch-Silva, V., Ladewig, S., & Kindler-Mathot, C. (2025, July). Marking contrast multimodally: the co-occurrence of ‘eigentlich’ and Palm Ups in spoken German. 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Nijmegen.
Peer-reviewed talks
Perlman, M., & Macuch-Silva, V. (2024, May). Do semiotics experiments really show the “superiority” of gesture over vocalization for iconic representation? And even if they do, does it matter? 15th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Madison.
Macuch-Silva, V., Lorson, A., & Winter, B. (2023, September). Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information. The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics, Paris.
Macuch-Silva, V., Lorson, A., Kinsella, A., Woodin, G., & Winter, B. (2023, August). A corpus analysis of English change-of-state verbs used to talk about quantity. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Düsseldorf.
Macuch-Silva, V., Lorson, A., & Winter, B. (2023, March). Strategic use of quantifiers in reporting statistics. Annual meeting of the General Psychology section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Trier.
Macuch-Silva, V., & Jamieson, E (2022, February). Interpreting negated polar questions and tracking beliefs in online discourse processing. Workshop on Discourse obligates - How and why discourse limits the way we express what we express, 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Tübingen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Macuch-Silva, V., Roberts, S., Holler, J., & Özyürek, A. (2017, September). An experimental study of multimodal communication and early language emergence. Protolang 5, Barcelona.
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.
Conference posters
Macuch-Silva, V., & Carrol, G. (2024, September). He’s a real weasel: Interpreting adjectival markers of stance and deriving non-literal meaning. The 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference, Edinburgh.
Macuch-Silva, V., Woodin, G., Lorson, A., & Winter, B. (2024, July). Goal bias in using spatial language to describe changing quantities. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam.
Lorson, A., Macuch-Silva, V., Hart, C., & Winter, B (2023, September). Using co-speech gestures strategically to influence quantifier interpretation. The 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics, Paris.
Macuch-Silva, V., Roettger, T., & Franke, M. (2023, June). Processing German modal particles and predicting referents in incremental interpretation. LingCologne 2023, Cologne.
Macuch-Silva, V., Lorson, A., & Winter, B. (2023, June). Strategic use of quantifiers in reporting statistics. 6th Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Annual Conference, Loughborough.
Macuch-Silva, V., Cummins, C., & Franke, M. (2020, July). Modeling manipulative language use. Poster presented at CogSci 2020 Virtual Conference.
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.
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).
Macuch-Silva, V., & Roberts, S. (2015, June). Does repair affect the emergence of structure in language? Poster presented at TABU Dag, Groningen.