Jennifer K. Spenader

Recent Presentations and Work in Progress
Hendriks, P., J. Hoeks and J. Spenader Reflexive Choice in Dutch and German. Submitted December 2011.

Andersson, M. and J. Spenader RESULT, PURPOSE and REASON - so what? Poster presentation. Theoretical Pragmatics 2011, 13-15 October, Berlin, Germany.

Spenader, J. and S. Sprenger Does Contrastive Marking Reverse Pronominal Antecedent Biases for Implicit Causality Verbs? Oral Presentation, TABU 2011, June 17, Groningen. SLIDES

Spenader, J. and S. Sprenger Does Contrastive Marking Reverse Pronominal Antecedent Preferences for Source-Goal Verbs? Oral Presentation, TIN 2011, February 5, Utrecht.SLIDES

Hendriks, P., B. Hollebrandse and J. Spenader. Reflexive choice in Dutch and German Oral Presentation, TIN 2011, February 5, Utrecht.

Spenader, J. Can children apply coherence information to correctly interpret pronouns? Oral Presentation, TIN 2010, February 6, Utrecht.SLIDES

Vogelzang, M. & J. Spenader. Do Presupposition Triggers Influence the Felicity of Voice Mismatched Sentences?, Oral Presentation TaBu 2009, June 12. Groningen.SLIDES .pdf

Spenader, J. Coherence Relations, Anaphora and Presupposition. Discourse op dinsdag. March 30; 11:00-12:30. abstract

2011
Bos, J. & J. Spenader. An annotated corpus of VP-ellipsis (2011). Language Resources and Evaluation.Paper .pdf

2010
Lobanova, A., T. van der Kleij & J. Spenader (2010). Defining Antonymy: A corpus-based study of opposites by lexico-syntactic patterns. International Journal of Lexicography. 23(1), 19-53.preprint .pdf

2009
Spenader, J. and E. Maier (2009). Contrast as Denial in multi-dimensional semantics. Journal of Pragmatics. 41(9), 1707-1726.

Spenader, J., E. J. Smits & P. Hendriks (2009). Coherent Discourse Solves the Pronoun Interpretation Problem. Journal of Child Language, 36(1), 23-52..pdf

Spenader, J. & A. Lobanova (2009). Reliable Discourse Markers for Contrast. Eighth International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, January, 2007..pdf

Bouma, G. and J. Spenader (2009). Strong and weak reflexives in Dutch. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories. January 23-24, 2009. Groningen..pdf

Petra Hendriks, John Hoeks, Helen de Hoop, Irene Kramer, Erik-Jan Smits, Jennifer Spenader, & Henriette de Swart (in press). A large-scale investigation of scalar implicature. To appear in: Ulrich Sauerland & Kazuko Yatsushiro (Eds). Semantics and Pragmatics: From Experiment to Theory (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition Series).

Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Jennifer Spenader & Hedderik van Rijn (in press). From group results to individual patterns in pronoun comprehension. In: Proceedings of the 33rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 33), Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.

Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Jennifer Spenader & Hedderik van Rijn (in press). Modelling the Selective Effects of Slowed-Down Speech in Pronoun Comprehension. Proceedings of GALANA 3, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, University of Connecticut, 4-6 September, 2008.

Lobanova, A., J. Spenader, T. van de Cruys, T. van der Kleij and E. Tjong Kim Sang. (2009). Automatic Relation Extraction - Can Synonym Extraction Benefit from Antonym Knowledge? In: NODALIDA 2009 Workshop ``WordNets and other Lexical Semantic Resources - between Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Terminology and Formal Ontologies'', Odense, Denmark.

2008

P. Hendriks, J. Spenader and E. J. Smits (2008). Frequency-based constraints on reflexive forms in Dutch. In: Jorgen Villadsen & Henning Christiansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP 2008), Computer Science Research Reports, #122, Roskilde University, Denmark, pp. 33-47. .pdf

Rij-Tange, J., P. Hendriks, J. Spenader and H. van Rijn (2008). Modelling the selective effects of slowed-down speech in pronoun comprehension. Accepted for oral presentation at GALANA 2008. .pdf

2007

Lobanova, A., J. Spenader and B. Valkenier (2007). Lexical and Perceptual Grounding of a Sound Ontology. In Proceedings of Text, Speech and Dialogue 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, Sept. 3-7. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4629, Springer. pp. TBA. .pdf

Smits, E.J., P. Hendriks and J. Spenader (2007). Using Very Large Parsed Corpora and Judgement Data to Classify Verb Reflexivity. In Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications. Selected papers from the 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2007, Lagos, Portugal, March 2007. Branco, A. Ed. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 44410, Springer. pp. 77-93. .pdf

Spenader, J. & G. Stulp (2007). Antonymy in Contrast Relations. Seventh International Workshop on Computational Semantics, Tilburg, 10-12 January, 2007. .pdf

Spenader, J. & Blutner, R. (2007). Compositionality and Systematicity. In: Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Bouma, G., Krämer, I., Zwarts, J. (eds.) KNAW publications, pp. 163-174.
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Lobanova, A. & Spenader, J. (2007). Incorporating Polarity in Lexical Resources. In Proceedings of GL 2007, Approaches to the Generative Lexicon. Paris, May 2007.
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Petra Hendriks, Irene Siekman, Erik-Jan Smits, & Jennifer Spenader (2007). Pronouns in competition: Predicting acquisition delays cross-linguistically. In: Dagmar Bittner & Natalia Gagarina (Eds.), ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Volume 48 (Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language. Proceedings of the Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language), pp. 75-101.

2006

Hendriks, P. and J. Spenader (2005/2006). When production precedes comprehension: An optimization approach to the acquisition of pronouns. Language Acquisition. 13(4), 319-348 Please contact copyright holder Lawrence Erlbaum Associates for permission to reprint or use the material in any form.
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Spenader, J. and P. Hendriks (2006). Combining Multiple Information Sources for Ellipsis, Introduction to Special Issue in Research on Language and Computation, Volume 4 (4) J. Spenader and P. Hendriks, Guest Editors, pp. 327-333.
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Spenader, J. and P. Hendriks (2006). Special Issue in Cross-Modal Approaches to Ellipsis, Research on Language and Computation, J. Spenader and P. Hendriks, Guest Editors.

2005

Spenader J. (in preparation) Contrast in Corpora read abstract

Spenader J.(2005) Review of ``Semantics in Generative Grammar'' by I. Heim and A. Kratzer. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, volume 14, number 4, 2005, pp. 476-479.
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Hendriks, P. and J. Spenader (2005). Why be silent? Functions of Ellipsis. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2005 Workshop on Cross-modular approaches to ellipsis.

Spenader & Hendriks (2005). Editors. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2005 Workshop on Cross-modular approaches to ellipsis. .pdf Paper presented August 8, 2005, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland

Smits, E-J., J. Spenader & P. Hendriks (2005). Pronouns: A case of Production-before-Comprehension. Presented at the Lisbon Workshop on Production vs Comprehension in the Acquisition of Syntax Universidade Nova de Lisboa, June 6-7, 2005

2004

Blutner, Reinhard & Jennifer Spenader (2004). The Nature of Systematicity in Natural Language Presentation KNAW Colloquium October 27, Amsterdam .ppt

Maier, Emar & Jennifer Spenader (2004). Unifying Contrast and Denial. Short abstract in the Proceedings of Catalog '04.

Huitink, Janneke & Jennifer Spenader (2004). Cancelation resistant PCI's. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2004 Workshop on Implicature and Conversational Meaning. .pdf

Spenader, Jennifer (2004). Rhetorical Reasons for Distinguishing PCIs from GCIs. University of Groningen, ms. .pdf

Hendriks, Petra & Spenader, Jennifer (2004). A bidirectional explanation of the pronoun interpretation problem.In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2004 Workshop on Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory , Nancy, France. Also ROA-664-0504     paper.pdf     SLIDES

Spenader, Jennifer (2004). Using Simple Word Alignment Measures to Study Discourse Particles, In Sprache und Datenverarbeitung, International Journal for Language Data Processing .pdf

Spenader, Jennifer (2004). Variation in choice of Swedish Demonstratives. In Optimality Theory and Pragmatics , R. Blutner & H. Zeevat, Eds. Palgrave/Macmillan

Spenader, Jennifer (2004). Modality realization as contrast in discourse, Journal of Semantics, Vol. 21 (2).

2003
Spenader, Jennifer (2003). Between binding and accommodation. In "Perspective on Dialogue in the New Millennium", Kuehlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat, eds. John Benjamins, pp.79-110.

Spenader, Jennifer (2003). Mining parallel corpora for discourse particle usage, In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2003 workshop on "The Meaning and Implementation of Discourse Particles", Manfred Stede, Henk Zeevat, Eds. Vienna, August 18-22, 2003.

Spenader, Jennifer (2003).Factive presuppositions, accommodation and information structure, In Journal of Logic Language and Information, Vol 12, No. 3.

Spenader, Jennifer (2003).Linguistlist review of ``The Construction of Meaning'', by Beaver, D. L. Casillas Martnez, B. Clark and S. Kaufmann, (2002), Center for the Study of Language and Information, CSLI Publications. url

Spenader, Jennifer, Anders Eriksson & Östen Dahl (2003). Proceedings of the Stockholm Workshop on Variation in Optimality Theory, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden. .pdf

2002
Spenader, Jennifer (2002).Presupposed Propositions in a Corpus of Dialogue, In Information Sharing: Reference and Presupposition in Language Generation and Interpretation, Kees van Deemter, Rodger Kibble, eds. CSLI publications

Spenader, Jennifer (2002).Optionality and Variation in Swedish Demonstratives. Paper presented at PIONIER-Workshop on Variation in form versus variation in meaning, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,11-12 July 2002

Spenader, Jennifer (2002).Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse. Ph.D. Dissertation, Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University. .pdf

2001

Spenader, Jennifer (2001).Presupposition or Anaphora: Constraints on Choice of Factive Complements in Spoken Discourse, Presented at ESSLLI 2001 Workshop on Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics, Helsinki, Finland, 13-24 August. .pdf

Spenader, Jennifer (2001). Between Binding and Accommodation, Presented at Bi-DIALOG, Fifth workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Bielefeld, 14-16 June, 2001.

Spenader, Jennifer (2001)Two takes on too?, Paper presented at Formal Pragmatics, Berlin, 16-18 March 2001 .pdf

1997-2000

Gustafson-Capková, Sofia & Spenader, Jennifer (2000).What textual relationships demand phonetic focus?: A corpus study of italics in Swedish children's books, In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE, Brno,Czech Republic, September 13-16, 2000. Springer-Verlag in LNCS/LNAI series.

Spenader, Jennifer (1999). Presuppositions in Multi-speaker discourse, Paper presented at ESSLLI '99 workshop on Focus and presupposition in multi-speaker discourse, Bart Geurts, Robert van der Sandt & Manfred Krifka, organizers, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9-20 August,ps-file

Spenader, Jennifer (1997). Determining ability to bear new and given information. Paper presented at Workshop on Prosody and Grammar in Interaction, Helsinki Finland, August 13-15.