MORA MALDONADO

I am a Ramón y Cajal Researcher with the Formal Linguistics Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Currently, I am on leave from my position as a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, Université de Nantes.

I am an experimental semanticist, which means that I study how languages express meaning with experimental methods. At the moment, my research is focused on investigating why some semantic properties hold universally while others do not: are there learning, processing or communicative biases that might explain constraints on linguistic meaning? To get at this, I use a wide range of techniques from cognitive sciences, including priming and artificial language learning experiments, mouse-/eye-tracking paradigms and computational simulations.

General research interests: Typology, Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, Quantification, Plurals, Ambiguity resolution, Reasoning, Processing, Universals.

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