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This page gives a chronological listing of my papers and conference presentations.
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I have a manuscript in preparation on the licensing of deaccenting for constituents entailed or otherwise made available by a linguistic antecedent. Feel free to contact me for information on this paper.
2021
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2021). Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity. In Beltrama, A., Schwarz, F., & Papafragou, A., eds., Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1. 172-183. [proceedings]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2021). At the syntax-discourse interface: Verb phrase ellipsis interpretation in context. Language 97(1). e89-e110. [pdf] [osf]
2020
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2020). Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1. Virtual conference, originally Philadelphia, PA. September 16. [slides]
Jeffrey Geiger (2020). Antecedence and context: Identity and nonidentity in verb phrase ellipsis and anaphoric deaccenting. Doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. [dissertation]
2019
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). Prosodic de-emphasis under non-identity: In support of a pragmatic account. Meaning in Flux 2. New Haven, CT. October 12. [slides]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). Production of deaccenting under entailment, repetition, and bridging: Phonetic and perceptual comparison. In Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M., & Warren, P., eds., Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 512-516. [proceedings]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). Production of deaccenting under entailment, repetition, and bridging: Phonetic and perceptual comparison. 19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia. August 6. [slides]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). Deaccenting under nonidentity: More than simple accommodation. 8th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Edinburgh, UK. June 20. [poster]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). A probabilistic account of VPE interpretation in context. 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO. March 31. [slides]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). Inferable constituents are not deaccented: Phonetic and perceptual evidence. 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO. March 30. [poster]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2019). Production of verb deaccenting under repetition, entailment, and bridging. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, NY. January 4. [slides]
2018
Kanan Luce, Jeffrey Geiger, Christopher Kennedy & Ming Xiang (2018). Interpretations of VP anaphora through reference to salient events. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 3(38). 1-13. [proceedings]
Kanan B. Luce, Jeffrey Geiger, Chris Kennedy & Ming Xiang (2018). Interpretations of VP anaphora through reference to salient events. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, UT. January 7. [slides]
2017
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2017). "Context can!": Contextual accommodation in exophoric and anaphoric verb phrase ellipsis. In A. Lamont & K. Tetzloff, eds., Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2. Amherst, MA: GLSA. 35-44. [proceedings]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2017). Ellipsis in context: The interaction of identity and discourse salience. 7th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Cologne, Germany. June 21. [poster]
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2017). Ellipsis in context: Identity and salience both drive interpretation. 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, MA. March 30. [poster]
2016
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang (2016). "Context can!": Contextual accommodation in exophoric and anaphoric verb phrase ellipses. 47th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society. Amherst, MA. October 14. [poster]
Jeffrey Geiger (2016). Exploring the role of rhythm in iterative-infixing language game learning. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley, CA. February 6. [slides]
2015
Jeffrey Geiger (2015). The role of rhythm in iterative-infixing ludlings. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Chicago, IL. July 14. [poster]
2014
Jeffrey Geiger (2014). Iterative infixation and vowel copying in Löfflisch. 19th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference. Madison, WI. September 13. [poster]
Jeffrey Geiger (2014). Iterative infixation and vowel copying in Löfflisch. Conference on Agreement by Correspondence. Berkeley, CA. May 18. [poster]