research

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S.A., Krause, J., & Hendriks, P. Unraveling Pragmatic Processing Differences across Neurotypes: Using Reaction Times and Pupillometry to Investigate Scalar Implicature Generation beyond Behavioral Responses 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy (XPRAG.it) Conference - Venice, Italy (September 26-27, 2024)

Mognon, I., Scholten, I., Hukker, V., & Hendriks, P. (2021). Pragmatics is not a monolithic phenomenon, and neither is theory of mind: Response to Kissine. Language, 97(3), e218-e227.

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S.A., Kuijper, S.J.M., & Hendriks, P. (2021). Complex inferential processes are needed for implicature comprehension, but not for implicature production. Frontiers in Psychology, 11,5.

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S.A., van Rij, J., Comunello, D., & Hendriks, P. Being pragmatic is effortful: pupillometry reveals the cognitive cost of scalar implicature generation

Mognon, I., Hagen, E., de Koster, A., & Hendriks, P. (in press). Tolerance for distributivity? Children’s interpretation of plural expressions in Dutch.In Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S., Kuijper, S., & Hendriks, P. (2021). Balancing the (Horn) scale: explaining the production-comprehension asymmetry for scalar implicatures, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 27,1

Mognon, I., Marree, A. L., & Hendriks, P. Reduced sensitivity to underinformativeness? Using a ternary judgment task to assess scalar implicature generation in L2 and L1 Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM), Philadelphia, USA (June, 2024)

Mognon, I., Marree, A. l., & Hendriks, P. Are non-native speakers sensitive to underinformativeness? Investigating scalar implicature generation in L1 and L2 using the ternary judgment task Theoretical and Experimental Pragmatics (Th-XPRAG) - Pavia, Italy (February 21, 2024)

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S.A., van Rij, J., Comunello, D., & Hendriks, P. Not all pupillary responses are logical: Measuring the cognitive cost of scalar implicature generation using pupillometry 10th Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG) Conference - Paris, France(September 20-22, 2023)

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S.A., van Rij, J., Comunello, D., & Hendriks, P. Is being pragmatic effortful? Unraveling the cognitive cost of pragmatic processing using pupillometry and reaction times Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP) conference - Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain (August 31-September 2, 2023)

Mognon, I. Using Pupillometry to Measure the Cognitive Cost of Scalar Implicatures: A Pilot Study, Oldenburg-Groningen Workshop on Language Acquisition and Processing - Oldenburg, Germany (December 13, 2022)

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S., & Hendriks, P. The effort of not being logical: using pupillometry to measure the cognitive cost associated with implicature generation, 9th Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG) Conference - Pavia, Italy (September 22-23, 2022)

Mognon, I. & Hendriks, P. Embodied Pragmatics First, Pragmatic Enrichment Later, Joint Conference on Language Evolution (Workshop: Pragmatics) - Kanazawa, Japan (September 4-8, 2022)

Mognon, I., Hagen, E., de Koster, A., & Hendriks, P. Tolerance for distributivity? Children’s interpretation of plural expressions in Dutch 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (November 4-7, 2021)

Mognon, I., Sprenger, S. A., Kuijper, S. J. M., & Hendriks, P. When speakers are more logical than hearers: why children show adult-like production but not adult-like comprehension of scalar items, Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research - Utrecht, the Netherlands (April 2021)

Mognon, I., Implicatures: Production/comprehension asymmetries in language acquisition, Experimental Pragmatics Summer School - Berlin, Germany (August, 2019)

Mognon, I., Hartman, C. A., Kuijper, S. & Hendriks, P., Pronoun interpretation and implicature computation: The interaction between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in children with ASD, Poster presented at "Language Abilities in Children with Autism" Workshop - Tours, France (April, 2019)

PhD in Linguistics, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Thesis title: Implicature Processing. Supervisors: Prof. P. Hendriks, Dr. S. Sprenger

Master’s Degree in Linguistics, University of Siena, Italy. Thesis title: The Comprehension of Clitic Left Dislocations in Agrammatic Aphasia. Supervisors: Prof. L. Rizzi, Prof. A. Belletti

Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities, University of Bologna, Italy. Thesis title: Prosodia e Struttura Informativa: Una Prospettiva Interlinguistica ("Prosody and Information Structure: A cross-linguistic Perspective"). Supervisors: Prof. M. Vayra, Dr. C. Avesani

Experimental pragmatics

Evolutionary pragmatics and social cognition in nonhuman animals

Disorders in language development

Referential and inferential skills in typical and atypical language acquisition

Figurative Language (metaphors, irony) in typical and atypical language acquisition

(Clinical) pragmatics

Theories of implicatures

Numerical cognition in non-human animals

Numerical cognition and quantifier comprehension in language acquisition

(Clinical) pragmatics

Cognitive skills and inferential abilities in typically and non-typically developing children

Preprocessing eye-tracking (= gaze) data

Analyzing gaze data using regression

Intro to Generalized Additive Mixed-effect Modeling

Analyzing gaze data using GAMM

Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition

Cognitive Development

Language Processing & Experimental Pragmatics

Experimental Methods: Pupillometry, Eyetracking

Acquisition of inferential abilities, with particular focus on (scalar) implicatures

Relationship between language processing/acquisition and socio-cognitive abilities (especially theory of mind and executive functions)

Language acquisition and socio-cognitive abilities in the Autism Spectrum