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Ira Noveck
@irastamon.bsky.social
Experimental Pragmatics, Development and Reasoning. CNRS Researcher (LLF, Université Paris-Cité). Favorite village: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
Not The Onion: Woman Found Innocent After 22 Years in Prison Will Not Be Deported (NYTimes).
Now that Bruce has written his ode to Minneapolis, the man from Minnesota should do one too.
Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.
The cat’s out of the bag! New research on idioms reveals hidden messages behind the words. Check out the #psynomMC paper by Nicholas Griffen and Ira Noveck irastamon.bsky.social. Post by @brettrmyers. buff.ly/otvD0qH
New Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...
Happy In Theory
This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.
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In other news (they came in threes), Nick Griffen and I have a paper that just came out providing some support for our Presuppositional Account of idioms. Here’s the link. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
What norming reveals about idioms: Making the case for a presuppositional account - Memory & Cognition
While early accounts of idiomatic expressions proposed that they are compositional or else directly retrievable from memory, the multi-determined view posited that idiom comprehension depends on obser...
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Just out: escholarship.org/uc/item/8fc3...
Isolating the extra-logical features of but and so by comparing their processing to and's: An investigation with thematically neutral content
Author(s): Larralde, Cecile; Moyer, Morgan; Pouscoulous, Nausicaa; Noveck, Ira | Abstract: Connectives such as and, but, and so conjoin two elements of discourse in characteristic ways. While highligh...
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Two articles from our lab on discourse connectives (specifically “and”, “but” & “so”). Both papers form just part of Cecile Larralde’s dissertation that took place last November. The work shows, in detail, how such words, from the moment they appear, generate specific procedures among participants.
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
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New paper: Communication & grammar: A synthesis Now in press at Psychological Review (cc @apajournals.bsky.social) In which I describe how contextualist approaches to communication fit especially well with constructionist approaches to grammar osf.io/preprints/ps...
Looking for a motivated Masters Student to help us run a study on discourse connectives.
Paul Theroux describes nicely what it’s like to live abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...
Opinion | The Hard Reality American Expats Quickly Learn
Expatriation was nonetheless the making of me: liberated me, humbled me, revealed to me who I was and what I wanted my life to be.
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This represents some of the work on discourse connectives carried out by Cecile along with Morgan Moyer and myself. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing
14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing was published in Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance on page 413.
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Cecile Larralde will be defending her thesis today at 13:30 in Paris. Its title is “Experimental investigations into the procedural meaning of discourse connectives.” She’s the first PhD product of the GRISP lab (within a lab), which started when I moved to Paris (the Université Paris Cité).