Publications
2025 Larralde, C., Moyer, M., Pouscoulous, N., & Noveck, I.A. Isolating the extra-logical features of discourse connectives: On the processing of but and so. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1). [PDF]
Larralde, C., Moyer, M., & Noveck, I. A. Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing. In Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen/Jacqueline Visconti, eds.) [PDF]
2020 Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. The study of questions. WIREs Cognitive Science. [PDF]
2019 Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. The semantics of questions. WIREs Cognitive Science. [PDF]
Moyer, M & K. Syrett. (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. 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. Contextual, lexical and structural factors licensing Mention-Some Embedded Questions. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. [PDF]
2017 Moyer, M. and B. Tesar. Output-Driven Learning, Restrictiveness, and an Inductive Leap: learning stress-less prosodic systems from distributional evidence. Manuscript, Rutgers University. [PDF]
2016 Moyer, M. and K. Syrett. Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Question Embedding: An Experimental Investigation. Manuscript, Rutgers University.
2015 Moyer, M., K. Harrigan, V. Hacquard and J. Lidz. 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]
2014 Dudley, R., N. Orita, M. Moyer, V. Hacquard and J. Lidz. Factivity in three year olds' understanding of know and think. In Proceedings of 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2013 Dudley, R., N. Orita, M. Moyer, V. Hacquard, J. Lidz. 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
in prep Moyer, M. A. Bourmayan, I. Stojanovic, and B. Strickland. Affect First? Evaluating the Affect-First Hypothesis through Valence.
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.
Dissertation
2020 The question of questions: resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions.. [PDF]
Presentations
2025 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.
2021 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.
2020 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.
2019 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.
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]
2017 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.
2015 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.
2014 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.
2013 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.