Publications

Dissertation

• The question of questions: resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions. (2020). [PDF]

Papers

• Larralde, C., Pouscoulous, N., Morgan Moyer & Noveck, I.A. (in press) Isolating the extra-logical features of discourse connectives: On the processing of but and so. Glossa Psycholinguistics
• Larralde, C. Moyer, M. & Noveck, I. A. (2025). Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing. In Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen/Jacqueline Visconti, eds.)
• Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. (2020). The study of questions. WIREs Cognitive Science. [PDF]


• Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. (2019). The semantics of questions. WIREs Cognitive Science. [PDF]


• Moyer, M & K. Syrett. (2019). (Non-)exhaustivity in embedded questions: contextual, lexical, and structural factors. Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of Sinn und Bedeutung. [PDF]


• Moyer, M., Z. Husnain, and K. Syrett. (2019). Won't Somebody think of the children? beyond maximality in plural definite descriptions. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. [PDF]


• Moyer, M. and Kristen Syrett. (2019). Contextual, lexical and structural factors licensing Mention-Some Embedded Questions. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. [PDF]


• Moyer, M. and B. Tesar. (2017). Output-Driven Learning, Restrictiveness, and an Inductive Leap: learning stress-less prosodic systems from distributional evidence. Manuscript, Rutgers University. [PDF]


• Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. (2016). Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Question Embedding: An Experimental Investigation. Manuscript, Rutgers University.


• Moyer, M., K. Harrigan, V. Hacquard and J. Lidz. (2015). 2-year-olds' comprehension of personal pronouns. In E. Grillo, K. Jepson, and M. LaMendola (Eds.) Supplemental Proceedings of the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development. [PDF]


• Dudley, R., N. Orita, M. Moyer, V. Hacquard and J. Lidz. (2014). Factivity in three year olds' understanding of know and think. In Proceedings of 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development.


• Dudley, R., N. Orita, M. Moyer, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. (2013). Three year olds’ understanding of know and think. Paper presented at 49th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, University of Chicago.

Manuscripts in preparation

• Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the Affect-First Hypothesis through Valence. XPrag Fest, ZAS Berlin. July 2025.


• Moyer, M. and J. Degen. (in prep). Who thinks wh-questions are exhaustive? A look at the naturalistic meanings of questions.


• Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. (in prep). Factors influencing the mention-some reading of wh-questions: an experiemntal study.

Presentations

• Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the prominence of affective meaning through valence. XPrag 2025, Cambridge University. September 2025. (poster)


• Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the prominence of affective meaning through valence. ESPP 2025, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2-5 September 2025.


• Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the prominence of affective meaning through valence. XPrag Fest, ZAS Berlin. July 2025.


• Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the prominence of affective meaning through valence. Workshop on New -- Experimental -- perspectives on valence in language, Sorbonne Université. June 13, 2025.


• Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the Affect-First Hypothesis through Valence. EPITHETS-STAHL Workshop, University of Genoa. May 7, 2025.


• Bourmayan, A. and M. Moyer. La connotation evaluative en langue : un espace de créativité ? Journée d'étude : Générativité & Créativité, Sorbonné Université. January 23, 2025.


• Moyer, M. and Degen, J. Who thinks wh-questions are exhaustive? Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. July 25, 2021. (poster)


• Moyer, M. and Degen, J. Who thinks wh-questions are exhaustive? California Meeting on Psycholinguistics. May 23, 2021.


• Moyer, M. and Degen, J. A corpus-based study of (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions. CUNY, UPenn, March 6, 2021.


• Moyer, M. Context-dependence and (non-)exhaustivity. Invited talk. Ferreira Lab Meeting. UC Davis. October 16, 2020.


• Moyer, M and Syrett K. Licensing (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions: Experimental studies. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 1 (ELM). UPenn. September 16, 2020.


• Moyer, M. Goal-driven interpreting: the pragmatics of non-exhaustivity. Rutgers-Bochum Workshop: Recent Developments in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Rutgers University. March 6-7, 2020.


• Moyer, M. The pragmatics of non-exhaustivity in wh-questions. Colloquium Talk, University of Rochester. December 13, 2019.


• Moyer, M. Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in questions. Talk. ALPS lab, Stanford University. September 2019.


• Howland, C. and M. Moyer. Discourse connectives as cues to speaker reference. Norwegian Summer Institute, University of Oslo. August 2019.
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• Moyer, M. and R. Tirumala. How a speaker signals, and a listener resolves, levels of exhaustivity. Talk. XPrag Workshop: Exhaustivity in Questions and Answers - Experimental and Theoretical Approaches. Tübingen University. June 2019.


• Moyer, M. and Bruce Tesar. 'Enforcing restrictiveness through ranking induction in the Output-Driven Learner.' LSA Annual Meeting. January 2019. (poster) [PDF]


• Moyer, M. and Bruce Tesar. 'Inductive Leaps and Output-Driven Learning' Talk. NECPHON 11, Stony Brook University. October 2017.


• Moyer, M. and Kristen Syrett. 'Lexical, Contextual Factors Licensing Mention-Some Interpretations.' MACSIM. October 2017. (poster)


• Moyer, M and Bruce Tesar. 'Output-Driven Learning, distributional generalizations, and inductive leaps'. RuLing XII, Rutgers University. May 2017.


• Moyer, M and B. Tesar. 'Output-Driven Learning, distributional generalizations, and inductive leaps'. Rutgers/Delaware/Haverford Workshop on Computational Phonology. April 2017.


• Moyer, M and K. Syrett. 'An experimental investigation of knowledge-wh: exhaustive and non-exhaustive readings'. Cognitive Science Graduate Talk Series, Rutgers University. December 2015.


• Moyer, M., K. Harrigan, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. '2-year-olds track discourse roles through pronominal reference'. 6th bi-annual Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition. February 2015.


• Moyer, M., K. Harrigan, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. '2-year-olds' comprehension of personal pronouns'. Poster presented at the 39th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. October 2014.


• Dudley, R, N. Orita, M. Moyer, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. 'Factivity in three-year-olds' understand of know and think'. Paper presented at the 38th annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. November 2013.


• Dudley, R., N. Orita, V., M. Moyer, Hacquard, J. Lidz. 'Three-year-olds understanding of know and think.' Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. April 2013.


• Moyer, M., R. Dudley, N. Orita, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. 'Are three-year-olds really insensitive to factivity?' Poster presented at the Phlint 1: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Beliefs and Desires. April 2013.


• Moyer, M., R. Dudley, N. Orita, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. 'Are three-year-olds really insensitive to factivity?' Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning. April 2013.