in preparation
to appear
2024
Ahmed Khorsheed and Bob van Tiel. Why second-language speakers sometimes but not always derive scalar inferences like first-language speakers: Effects of task demands. Language Acquisition.
Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Bob van Tiel, and Richard Breheny. Scalar inferencing, polarity and cognitive load. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 3, 15.
Bob van Tiel, Fausto Carcassi, and Xiaochen Y. Zheng. Word order and the learnability of artificial languages. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 5356-5362.
2023
Leopold Hess, Corien Bary, and Bob van Tiel. Commitments de lingua and assertoric commitments: The case of expressives. Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 33, 379-398.
Polina Tsvilodub, Bob van Tiel, and Michael Franke. The role of relevance, competence, and priors for scalar inferences. In: Tyler Knowlton, Florian Schwarz, and Anna Papafragou (Eds.), Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2 (pp. 288-298).
2022
Corien Bary, Leopold Hess, and Bob van Tiel. Expressives do shift, but not on their own. In: Marco Degano, Tom Roberts, Giorgio Sbardolini, and Marieke Schouwstra (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium (pp. 31-37).
Bob van Tiel, Uli Sauerland, and Michael Franke. Meaning and use in the expression of estimative probability. Open Mind, 6, 250-263.
Ahmed Khorsheed, Jessica Price, and Bob van Tiel. Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review. Frontiers in Communication, 7, 990044.
2021
Ye Tian, Bob van Tiel, Élise Clin, & Richard Breheny. Representing polar questions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 1535-1555.
Elizabeth Pankratz and Bob van Tiel. The role of relevance for scalar diversity: A usage-based approach. Language and Cognition, 13, 562-594.
Bob van Tiel, Michael Franke, and Uli Sauerland. Probabilistic pragmatics explains gradience and focality in natural language quantification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2005453118. (Video abstract)
Bob van Tiel and Elizabeth Pankratz. Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences. Glossa, 6, 32.
Sherry Yong Chen and Bob van Tiel. Every ambiguity isn’t syntactic in nature: Testing the Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 4, 24.
Bob van Tiel, Gaétane Deliens, Philippine Geelhand, Anke Murillo Oosterwijk, and Mikhail Kissine. Strategic deception in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51, 255-266.
2019
Bob van Tiel. “The case against fuzzy logic revisited” revisited. Snippets, 37, 100-102.
Bart Geurts, Mikhail Kissine, and Bob van Tiel. Pragmatic reasoning in autism. In Kinga Morsanyi and Ruth Byrne (Eds.), Thinking, reasoning and decision making in autism (pp. 113-134). Routledge.
Bob van Tiel, Elizabeth Pankratz, Paul Marty, and Chao Sun. Scalar inferences and cognitive load. In M. Teresa Espinal, Elena Castroviejo, Manuel Leonetti, Louise McNally, and Cristina Real-Puigdollers (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23 (pp. 427-441).
Philippine Geelhand, Philippe Bernard, Olivier Klein, Bob van Tiel, and Mikhail Kissine. The role of gender in the perception of autism symptom severity and future behavioral development. Molecular Autism, 10, 1-16.
Bob van Tiel, Elizabeth Pankratz, and Chao Sun. Scales and scalarity: Processing scalar inferences. Journal of Memory and Language, 105, 93-107.
2018
Bob van Tiel and Mikhail Kissine. Quantity-based reasoning in the broader autism phenotype: A web-based study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39, 1373-1403.
Bob van Tiel, Ira Noveck, and Mikhail Kissine. Reasoning with ‘some’. Journal of Semantics, 35, 757-797.
2017
2016
Bart Geurts and Bob van Tiel. When “all the five circles” are four: New exercises in domain restriction. Topoi, 35, 109-122.
Bob van Tiel, Emiel van Miltenburg, Natalia Zevakhina, and Bart Geurts. Scalar diversity. Journal of Semantics, 33, 107-135.
Bob van Tiel. Processing pragmatic inferences. In Fabienne Salfner and Uli Sauerland (Eds.), Pre-proceedings of trends in experimental pragmatics (pp. 146-152).
2014
Bob van Tiel. Quantity matters: Implicatures, typicality and truth. Ph.D. thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Bob van Tiel. Embedded scalars and typicality. Journal of Semantics, 31, 147-177.
Bob van Tiel and Bart Geurts. Truth and typicality in the interpretation of quantifiers. In Urtzi Etxeberria, Anamaria Fălăuș, Aritz Irurtzun, Bryan Leferman (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 18 (pp. 433-450).
2013
2012
Bob van Tiel. Universal free choice? In: Ana Aguilar Guevara, Anna Chernilovskaya, and Rick Nouwen (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16 (pp. 627-638). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Jacques Jayez and Bob van Tiel. Only only: An experimental window on exclusiveness. In: Maria Aloni, Vadim Kimmelman, Floris Roelofsen, Galit W. Sassoon, Katrin Schulz, and Matthijs Westera (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium (pp. 391-400). Springer.
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