CV
Preprints
Lorson, A (2018). The influence of world knowledge on projectivity. M.A. thesis, University of Potsdam
Publications
Talks
Gesture size affects numerical estimates in quantifier comprehension
Talk at Oldenburg-Groningen Workshop, Alexandra Lorson, Vinicius MacUch Silva, Bodo Winter, Christopher Hart, Oldenburg, Germany
Gesture can influence what number you have in mind
Talk at XPRAG 2023, Alexandra Lorson, Vinicius MacUch Silva, Bodo Winter, Christopher Hart, Paris, France
Seeing gestures can change what numbers you have in mind
Talk at ICLC16, Alexandra Lorson, Vinicius MacUch Silva, Bodo Winter, Christopher Hart, Düsseldorf, Germany
Is quantifier interpretation susceptible to gestural influence?
Talk at TeaP 2023, Alexandra Lorson, Vinicius MacUch Silva, Bodo Winter, Christopher Hart, Trier, Germany
Strategic use of quantifiers in reporting statistics
Talk at TeaP 2023, Vinicius MacUch Silva, Alexandra Lorson, Bodo Winter, Trier, Germany
Experimentally investigating the production of additive presupposition triggers
Talk at XPRAG 2022, Alexandra Lorson, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Pavia, Italy
‘I’d like a glass of Chardonnay, too.’: Grounding with additives
Talk at LACAB 2022, Alexandra Lorson, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Birmingham/ Language and Cognition at Birmingham
Strategic reasoning when formulating and comprehending knowledge ascriptions
Talk at AMLaP 2021, Alexandra Lorson, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Paris/ AMLaP platform
Du sprichst English? So do I: How German speakers align in their use of Anglicisms
Talk at 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Tobias Ungerer, Alexandra Lorson, SLE 2020 platform
Expectations about discourse relevance can license direct objections to presupposed content
Talk at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC), Alexandra Lorson, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Berlin, DE
When objecting to presupposed content comes easily
Talk at The 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Alexandra Lorson, Chris Cummins, Hannah Rohde, London, UK
The influence of world knowledge on projectivity: Listeners revise their gender stereotypes when processing presuppositions triggered by ‘stop’
Poster at 64th Language @ Edinburgh Lunch, Alexandra Lorson, Edinburgh, UK
Education
- B.A. in German Studies, University of Mannheim, 2015
- Semester abroad, Charles-University Prague, 2014
- M.Sc. in Linguistics, University of Potsdam, 2018
- Semester abroad, Lund University, 2016
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh, 2022
Qualifications & Achievements
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), The University of Edinburgh, 2021
- 3 Minute Thesis winner on school level (PPLS) 2019/2020, The University of Edinburgh
Grants & Awards
- University of Edinburgh Good Research Practice Award
- Category: Open research award
- CHSS/PPLS Research Award
- University of Edinburgh College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science/School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
- Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
Work experience
- 2022/2023: Postdoctoral research fellow on the `Making Numbers Meaningful’ project led by Bodo Winter
- The University of Birmingham
- 2021: Open Research Facilitator
- The University of Edinburgh (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences)
- 2020/2021 (Term 2): Teaching Assistant for statistics
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of GeoSciences)
- Undergraduate seminar: Keymethods in Geography
- 2020/2021 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Honours seminar: Pragmatics
- 2020/2021 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Psychology)
- Undergraduate seminar: Research Methods and Statistics 2
- 2020/2021 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Undergraduate seminar: Introduction to Cognitive Science
- 2019–2021 (Term 2): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Undergraduate seminar: LEL1B (Introduction to Linguistics part II)
- 2019/2020 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Honours seminar: Sociolinguistics
- 2017/2018: Research Assistant
- University of Potsdam (Vasishth lab)
- Duties included: Conducting Eye Tracking, Self-paced reading and EEG Experiments
- 2017/2018: Teaching Assistant
- University of Potsdam (Department of Psycholinguistics)
- Graduate seminar: Eyetracking in Psycholinguistic research
- 2017/2018: Teaching Assistant
- University of Potsdam (Department of Psycholinguistics)
- Undergraduate seminar: Introduction to Language Processing
- 2014/2015: Research Assistant
- Institute of German Language (Mannheim)
- Duties included: Editing the leading German pronunciation dictionary (DUDEN)
- 2014: Internship
- Institute of German Language (Mannheim), Departments of Lexicology and Grammar
Academic service
- 2019–2021: Member of the Meaning and Grammer Research Group Committee
- Department of Linguistics and English Language
- Organising bi-weekly presentations in the areas of syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- 2018/2019: Member of the Language @ Edinburgh Lunch Committee
- School of Informatics & School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- Organising bi-monthly poster presentation session on language-related research
- 2018/2019: Member of the XPrag Conference organising Committee
- The University of Edinburgh
- Organising the 8th Experimental Pragmatics conference