Programme | Detec2026

Time	Programme
Thursday, 17 September
09:00–09:30	Registration and coffee
09:30–10:00	Welcome by Merel Scholman Searching for meaning in discourse
10:00–11:00	Keynote 1: Paula Rubio-Fernandez Demonstratives: Multimodal interaction across languages
11:00–11:20	Coffee break
11:20–12:35	Session 1 Yue Chen, Jun Lyu & Elsi Kaiser On the interplay of topicality and perspectival information in reference resolution: Insights from anaphoric reflexives Jun Lyu Statistical learning (partially) accounts for what you choose, not what you predict: Evidence from cataphora resolution in Chinese Hans A. Wilke, Jet Hoek & Hannah Rohde (Not) expected to be elaborated on: Testing the Right Frontier Constraint
12:35–14:00	Lunch break
14:00–15:40	Session 2 Antoine Cruchon, Sandrine Zufferey, Sayaka Sato & Pascal Gygax Connective Frequency, Exposure to Print and Discourse Expectations: A Bayesian Account of Individual Differences in Coherence Judgments Hongzhong Chen, Yipu Wei & Ted J.M. Sanders Do genre cues facilitate the processing of subjective and objective causal relations? Evidence from eye-tracking Hongling Xiao, Sebastian Loftus, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe & Liesbeth Degand Uniform information density and the marking of Mandarin concessive-adversative relations: a surprisal-based study Ted J.M. Sanders & Pim Mak Schematic expectations or relational differences? Causal coherence relations in discourse processing
15:40–17:00	Poster session View posters Amal Hassen, Heiner Drenhaus, Ingo Reich & Robin Lemke Retrieval cues hierarchy in sluice resolution: The case of French Hannah J. Seemann On the emergence of expectations in discourse introduced by ambiguous cues Ana Celmare, Merel CJ Scholman & Vera Demberg Multimodal Investment in Epistemic Stance Expression: Gestural and Prosodic Indicators of Speaker Commitment Jun Lyu & Yuhan Liu So what happens next?: Reference prediction in implicit consequential events in L2 Chinese Yizhuo Zhang, Alexander Martin & Alexandra Lorson Expectations of Social Indexicality: Mandarin Chinese T/V distinction Timo Buchholz, Martin Villalba & Klaus von Heusinger German anaphoric demonstrative pronouns shape discourse expectations about contrast and animacy Katja Haeuser German-speaking 10–12 year-olds revise their noun predictions when reading prediction-inconsistent gender-marked articles Haochuan Wang Cross-lingual expectation failure in definitional clauses: structural variation and prediction across five EU languages Peter Furko & Eszter Szakács Pragmatic Markers as Signals of Discourse Expectations: A Corpus-Based Study of Political and Human–AI Interaction Jessie Jingxian ZENG Interpreter-mediated discourse predictability: A surprisal-based account leveraging large language models Jet Hoek, Klaus von Heusinger & Hannah Rohde Expectations while you wait? Not replicating anti-locality effects at the discourse level Marloes van Moort Supportively beneficial or convincingly problematic? Effects of supporting contexts on the use of (in)accurate information Ronja van Zijverden, Marloes van Moort, Karin Fikkers, Antal van den Bosch & Hans Hoeken The language of likes: A corpus study on linguistic predictors of text agreement Li Kloostra Discourse processing is subject to coherence illusions and the binding problem in memory: Eye-tracking and acceptability studies on presupposition resolution with ‘again’
17:30–20:00	Conference dinner

Friday, 18 September
09:00–10:00	Keynote 2: Matthew Husband TBA
10:00–10:25	Harriet Yates, Bob van Tiel & Corien Bary Scare quotes, speaker commitment, and discourse expectancies: an fEMG experiment
10:25–10:45	Coffee break
10:45–12:00	Session 4 Jasmina Đorđević Sociocognitive perspectives on discourse expectations in online news coverage of the Serbian student protests Abhishek Verma, Frances Yung & Vera Demberg Ideology as Predictive Bias: Political Beliefs Modulate Discourse Relation Interpretation Ewan Ginige Batlle & Hannah Rohde Expectations in implicatures: A comparison of Human and LLM sensitivity to alternatives Hilary S Wynne & Jiamin Cheng Evidence for the interaction of global and local knowledge in expectation in the domain-restricted language of aviation
12:00–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:45	Session 5 Nicolás Acuña & Valeria Arriaza Event-Based Expectations and Local Constraints During Reading: Evidence From Eye Tracking Brooke Eli Jehlon Ferrell & Hannah Rohde Seeing the moose with binoculars: speakers’ anticipation of potential ambiguity in conversation Robin Lemke Does ellipsis interpretation involve the anticipation of errors in the signal? – Testing a noisy channel account of ellipsis processing
14:45–15:00	Closing (Drinks)