Irene Mognon

PhD CANDIDATE
LAB coordinator

research

Upcoming talks!


journal articles

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proceedings




talks and posters




  • 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., 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)




background

  • 2018 – Present: PhD Student, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands

  • 2015–2017: 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

  • 2012–2015: 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

Teaching


courses

2022/2023: Semantics and Pragmatics - Ba Linguistics (year III) - University of Groningen

  • Experimental pragmatics

  • Evolutionary pragmatics and social cognition in nonhuman animals


2022/2023: Psycholinguistics and Disorders in Language Development - Ba Linguistics (year III) - University of Groningen

  • Disorders in language development

  • Referential and inferential skills in typical and atypical language acquisition

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


2020/2021: Disorders in Language Acquisition (Stoornissen in de Taalontwikkeling) - Ba Linguistics (year III) - University of Groningen

  • (Clinical) pragmatics

  • Theories of implicatures

  • Numerical cognition in non-human animals

  • Numerical cognition and quantifier comprehension in language acquisition


2019/2020: Disorders in Language Acquisition (Stoornissen in de Taalontwikkeling) - Ba Linguistics (year III) - University of Groningen

  • (Clinical) pragmatics

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



workshop organization

Eyetracking data analysis workshop:
Guest speaker with Joshua Krause & Abigal Toth - Oldenburg University [October 4-5 2023]

  • Preprocessing eye-tracking (= gaze) data

  • Analyzing gaze data using regression

  • Intro to Generalized Additive Mixed-effect Modeling

  • Analyzing gaze data using GAMM



guest lectures

Scalar Implicatures: Theories and Processing
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (year II) - Course: Pragmatics [07-09-2023]

Pupillometry and Processing
University of Groningen - Ma Linguistics (year I) - Course: The interpretation of Language [13-10-2022]

Pupillometry: Theories and Experimental Applications
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (II year) - course: Language and Neuro Imaging [24-05-2022]

Inferential Abilities in Language Acquisition
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (year I) - course: Language Acquisition [22-03-2022]

Pragmatics abilities in Typical Development and Atypical Populations
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (year III) - course: Disorders in Language Acquisition [24-02-2022]

Eye-tracking in Linguistic Research
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (year I) - course: Language Processing [22-10-2021]

Gricean Pragmatics
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (year I)- course: Language Acquisition [12-03-2020]

Scalar Implicatures and Autism Spectrum Disorder
University of Groningen - Ba Linguistics (year III) - course: Pragmatics [21-03-2019]

Optimality Theory and Implicatures
University of Groningen - ReMa Language and Cognition (year I) - course: Debates in Linguistics [19-02-2019]



other activities

2020/2021: Research Master thesis supervision - Student: Anne-Marie van Boeckel - University of Groningen

2020/2021: Ba thesis supervision - Student: Else Hagen - University of Groningen

2019/2020: Research training supervision - Student: Anne-Marie van Boeckel - University of Groningen


About

general research interests

  • Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition

  • Cognitive Development

  • Experimental Pragmatics

  • Formal Semantics

  • Language Evolution


specific topics of investigation

  • Acquisition of inferential abilities, with particular focus on implicatures

  • Relationship between language acquisition and cognitive abilities (especially theory of mind and cognitive inhibition)

  • Language acquisition and socio-cognitive abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder


more?

I have been absorbed by the study of the relationship between natural language, (possible) world(s), and cognition since the first time I have heard that colorless green ideas can perhaps sleep furiously.
Currently, I am finalizing my PhD dissertation at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (University of Groningen) and at the Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (University of Groningen). Since 2023, I am also working as lab coordinator for the 'Humanities Lab' of my Faculty.
With my research, I aim to formalize cognitively-plausible models of language, shed more light on the relationship between linguistic phenomena and cognitive abilities, and experimentally assess the adequacy of formal models of typical and atypical language acquisition.
I am interested also in aphasiology, animal communication, the hypothesis of logicality of language, and recursion.
In my PhD project I investigate language comprehension and language processing adopting online methods such as eye-tracking/pupillometry and reaction times, under the supervision of Prof. P. Hendriks, Dr. S. Sprenger, and Dr. S. Kuijper.Interested in my research? Get in touch!

contact


get in touch!

i.mognon@rug.nl


visiting address

Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen
Harmony Building, Room: 1315-0343
Telephone: +31 6 3192 1513


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