Representative publications

For a full list of publications, see my lab website or CV.

• Degen, J. and Tonhauser, J. (2022). Are there factive predicates? An empirical investigation. Language, 98(3), 552-591. [pdf]
• Degen, J., Hawkins, R.D., Graf, C., Kreiss, E., and Goodman, N.D. (2020). When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to ‘overinformative’ referring expressions. Psychological Review, 127(4), 591–621. [pdf]
• Schuster, S. and Degen, J. (2020). I know what you’re probably going to say: Listener adaptation to variable use of uncertainty expressions. Cognition, 203, 104285. [pdf]
• Degen, J. (2015). Investigating the distribution of some (but not all) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods. Semantics and Pragmatics, 8 (11), 1-55. [pdf]
• Degen, J. and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2015). Processsing scalar implicature: a constraint-based approach. Cognitive Science, 39(4), 667-710. [pdf]