Irene Mognon
PhD CANDIDATE
LAB coordinator
research
Upcoming talks!
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)
journal articles
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.
0 see Kissine's target article, "Autism, constructionism and nativism" here
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.
proceedings
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
talks and posters
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)
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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