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cognitive science, experimental pragmatics, computational pragmatics, psycholinguistics, implicature, reference

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Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

2017-09-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
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Judith Degen

Stanford University: Stanford, California, US

2013-09 to 2017-08-31 | Postdoctoral scholar (Psychology)
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Judith Degen

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Rochester: Rochester, NY, US

2008-09-01 to 2013-07-31 | PhD (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
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Judith Degen

Funding (1)

Efficient utterance interpretation: a Bayesian approach

2013-09 to 2015-02 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
GRANT_NUMBER: 148500
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Judith Degen

Works (25)

A Meta-analysis of Syntactic Satiation in Extraction from Islands

Glossa Psycholinguistics
2024-05-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Jiayi Lu; Michael Frank; Judith Degen
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The softmax function: Properties, motivation, and interpretation

2023-09-28 | Preprint
Contributors: Michael Franke; Judith Degen
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Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
2023-07-25 | Journal article
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WOS:001037227100002

Part of ISSN: 2307-387X
Contributors: Hu, Jennifer; Levy, Roger; Degen, Judith; Schuster, Sebastian
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The cross-linguistic order of adjectives and nouns may be the result of iterated pragmatic pressures on referential communication

2023-05-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Dhara Yu; Brandon Waldon; Judith Degen
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The Rational Speech Act Framework

ANNUAL REVIEW OF LINGUISTICS
2023-01-01 | Journal article
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WOS:000915412800026

Part of ISSN: 2333-9691
Contributors: Degen, Judith
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ARE THERE FACTIVE PREDICATES? AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

LANGUAGE
2022-09-01 | Journal article
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WOS:000892471200003

Part of ISSN: 1535-0665
Part of ISSN: 0097-8507
Contributors: Degen, Judith; Tonhauser, Judith
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Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults

2022-06-11 | Preprint
Contributors: Elizabeth Swanson; Michael C. Frank; Judith Degen
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Modeling word and morpheme order in natural language as an efficient trade-off of memory and surprisal.

Psychological Review
2021-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Michael Hahn; Judith Degen; Richard Futrell
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Who thinks wh-questions are exhaustive?

2021-03-12 | Other
Contributors: Morgan Moyer; Judith Degen
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Prior beliefs modulate projection

2021-02-20 | Other
Contributors: Judith Degen; Judith Tonhauser
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Morpheme Ordering Across Languages Reflects Optimization for Processing Efficiency.

Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
2021-01-01 | Journal article
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MEDLINE:36438423

Part of ISSN: 2470-2986
Contributors: Hahn, Michael; Mathew, Rebecca; Degen, Judith
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Prior Beliefs Modulate Projection.

Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
2021-01-01 | Journal article
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MEDLINE:34746615

Part of ISSN: 2470-2986
Contributors: Degen, Judith; Tonhauser, Judith
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Evaluative adjective sentences: A question-based analysis of projection

GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS
2020-09-01 | Journal article
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WOS:000565656400001

Part of ISSN: 2397-1835
Contributors: Tonhauser, Judith; de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine; Degen, Judith
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When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to “overinformative” referring expressions.

Psychological Review
2020-07-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Judith Degen; Robert D. Hawkins; Caroline Graf; Elisa Kreiss; Noah D. Goodman
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Modeling word and morpheme order in natural language as an efficient tradeoff of memory and surprisal

2020-06-26 | Preprint
Contributors: Michael Hahn; Judith Degen; Richard Futrell
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I know what you're probably going to say: Listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions.

Cognition
2020-06-10 | Journal article
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MEDLINE:32535344

Part of ISSN: 1873-7838
Part of ISSN: 0010-0277
Contributors: Schuster, Sebastian; Degen, Judith
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I know what you're probably going to say: Listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions

2019-07-17 | Other
Contributors: Sebastian Schuster; Judith Degen
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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate

FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
2019-02-12 | Journal article
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WOS:000458422500001

Part of ISSN: 1664-1078
Contributors: Jasbi, Masoud; Waldon, Brandon; Degen, Judith
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Definitely, maybe: A new experimental paradigm for investigating the pragmatics of evidential devices across languages

JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
2019-01-01 | Journal article
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WOS:000458097100004

Part of ISSN: 1879-1387
Part of ISSN: 0378-2166
Contributors: Degen, Judith; Trotzke, Andreas; Scontras, Gregory; Wittenberg, Eva; Goodman, Noah D.
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On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences

SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS
2019-01-01 | Journal article
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WOS:000498393400007

Part of ISSN: 1937-8912
Contributors: Scontras, Gregory; Degen, Judith; Goodman, Noah D.
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How Projective is Projective Content? Gradience in Projectivity and At-issueness

JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS
2018-08-01 | Journal article
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WOS:000456050400004

Part of ISSN: 1477-4593
Part of ISSN: 0167-5133
Contributors: Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David I.; Degen, Judith
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Reasoning in Reference Games: Individual-vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling

PLOS ONE
2016-05-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1932-6203
Contributors: Franke, Michael; Degen, Judith
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Talker-specificity and adaptation in quantifier interpretation

JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
2016-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0749-596X
Contributors: Yildirim, Ilker; Degen, Judith; Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Jaeger, T. Florian
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Availability of Alternatives and the Processing of Scalar Implicatures: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study.

Cognitive science
2016-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0364-0213
Contributors: Degen, Judith; Tanenhaus, Michael K.
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Processing Scalar Implicature: A Constraint-Based Approach

COGNITIVE SCIENCE
2015-05-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0364-0213
Contributors: Degen, Judith; Tanenhaus, Michael K.
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