John (Jack) Duff

Publications

Journal Articles

John Duff, Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu, and Amanda Rysling. 2023. Pragmatic representations and online comprehension: Lessons from direct discourse and causal adjuncts. Glossa Psycholinguistics 2(1). (PDF)

Fe Silva-Robles, Felipe H. Lopez, John Duff, and Carolyn Jane Anderson. 2022. Eliciting associated motion constructions in two Zapotec languages. Semantic Field Methods 4(3): 1-51. (PDF)

Lyn Frazier and John Duff. 2019. Processing ellipsis: The circumstances of repair. Glossa 4(1): 78. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.728.

Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton Jr., Stephanie Rich, and John Duff. 2018. Anticipating negation: The dos and don’ts of Neg Raising. Syntax 21(2): 160-194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/synt.12151.

Alice Harris and John Duff. 2018. Relation of agreement clitics to verb stems in Caucasian Albanian. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15: 45-69. (PDF)

Proceedings Papers & Working Papers

John Duff, Ivy Sichel, and Maziar Toosarvandani. 2022. Redundancy and restriction in the derivation of relative clauses. In Lalitha Balachandran & John Duff (eds.), Syntax & Semantics at Santa Cruz Vol. 5. (PDF)

John Duff and Lalitha Balachandran. 2022. Participants seek shared outlooks in non-canonical disagreements: Evidence from a corpus of dyadic conversation in English. In Proceedings of SemDial 26 (DubDial). (PDF)

John Duff. Forthcoming. The structure of events and arguments in associated motion. In Proceedings of WSCLA 25. (Pre-print, 15 September 2021)

John Duff. Forthcoming. A causal decomposition for associated motion events in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. In Proceedings of WCCFL 39. (Pre-print, 15 June 2021)

John Duff. 2019. The locus of commitment: Flipping judges in a commitment-based discourse model. In Merijn Beeksma & Matteo Manighetti (eds.), Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2019 Student Session. (PDF)

Incremental computation of scalar implicatures in the Maze task. Talk at XPrag X, Paris, September 2023. (with Pranav Anand and Amanda Rysling) (slides)

No cost to cancelling causal inferences in the comprehension of short English narratives. Poster at AMLaP 29, BCBL, September 2023. (with Pranav Anand and Amanda Rysling) (poster)

Partition vs. compression: Memory domains and the processing of appositives. Poster at AMLaP 28, University of York, September 2022. (with Lalitha Balachandran, Pranav Anand, and Amanda Rysling) (abstract) (poster)

In search of pragmatic discounting: Lessons from direct discourse and causal adjuncts. Talk at Processing Meets Semantics (PROMS), Utrecht, September 2022. (with Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu, and Amanda Rysling) (abstract) (slides)

Participants seek shared outlooks in non-canonical disagreements: Evidence from a corpus of dyadic conversation in English. Accepted as a long paper at SemDial, Technological University Dublin, August 2022. (with Lalitha Balachandran)

Task effects on the processing of predicate ambiguity: Distributivity in the Maze. Short talk at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 2, UPenn, May 2022. (with Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling) (slides)

Use/Mention ambiguities in comprehension: Evidence from agreement attraction. Short talk at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP) 35, UC Santa Cruz, March 2022. (with Matthew Wagers) (slides)

“It’s alive!”: Animacy-based structural expectations rapidly update with context. Short talk at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP) 35, UC Santa Cruz, March 2022. (with Stephanie Rich, Lalitha Balachandran, Matthew Kogan, Nicholas Van Handel, Maya Wax Cavallaro, and Matthew Wagers)

Tonal patterns and their restrictions in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. Talk at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) Annual Meeting, January 2022.(with Mykel L. Brinkerhoff and Maya Wax Cavallaro)

Associated motion and the structure of the verb in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. Talk at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 25, UC San Diego, May 2021.

Downstep in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec and the prosodic typology of VSO languages. Talk at the Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm) 28, May 2021. (with Mykel L. Brinkerhoff and Maya Wax Cavallaro)

A mighty Maze! Revisiting strategic underspecification using the Maze task. Talk at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) 4, UC Irvine, May 2021. (with Shayne Sloggett, Nicholas Van Handel, Kelsey Sasaki, Stephanie Rich, Wesley Orth, Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling)

Composing associated motion in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. Talk at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 39, U of Arizona, April 2021. (handout)

Task influences on lexical underspecification: Insights from the Maze and SPR. Short talk at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UPenn, March 2021. (with Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling) (abstract) (slides)

Semantic commitment and lexical underspecification in the Maze. Poster at AMLaP, University of Potsdam, September 2020. (with Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling) (poster) (video)

The processing of direct discourse: When a subordinate speech act sticks around. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UMass Amherst, March 2020. (with Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu, and Amanda Rysling) (poster) (video)

"Ambiguous" isn’t "underspecified": Evidence from the Maze task. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UMass Amherst, March 2020. (with Shayne Sloggett, Nicholas Van Handel, Kelsey Sasaki, Stephanie Rich, Wesley Orth, Pranav Anand, and Amanda Rysling) (poster)

Individual differences and the relationship between attitude predicates and perspective. Talk at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) 2, University of Southern California, December 2018. (slides)

Says who?: The influence of speech and mental predicates on epithet interpretation. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Davis, April 2018. (poster)

Evidence for multiple memory representations from discourse anaphora and ellipsis. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Davis, April 2018. (with Lyn Frazier)

Udi and the location of Caucasian Albanian agreement clitics. Poster at Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, January 2018. (with Alice C. Harris) (poster)

Anticipating negation: Experimental evidence for a semantic account of Neg Raising. Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, March 2017. (with Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton Jr., and Stephanie Rich)

Other Presentations

Deriving "restrictive" interpretations for clarificatory nominal appositives. Talk at California Universities Semantics & Pragmatics (CUSP) 13, UCLA, May 2022.

The causal properties of associated motion. Talk at the Converging On Causal Ontology Analyses (COCOA) workshop, CNRS (OASIS), September 2021.

To flip a judge: Predicates of personal taste in a commitment-based discourse model. Invited talk at UC Berkeley’s Syntax & Semantics Circle, October 2019 & Talk at California Universities Semantics & Pragmatics (CUSP) 12, University of Southern California, November 2019 (handout).