Penny Pan

PhD Student in Linguistics

Research Interests

Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science

Peer-reviewed Paper

  • Pan, D., and Degen, J. (2023). Towards a computational account of projection inferences in polar interrogatives with clause-embedding predicates. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Unpublished Manuscripts

  • Lu, J.*, Pan, D.*, & Degen, J. (under review) Discourse Effects on the Manner-of-Speaking Island.

  • Are There Roses in the Maze?: Auditory word recognition in Mandarin-English bilinguals. B.A. Thesis, Vassar College. Advised by Prof. Janet Andrews. Second reader: Prof. John Long.

  • Projection inferences with clause-embedding predicates in RSA models. M.S. Thesis, Stanford University. Advised by Prof. Judith Degen. Second reader: Prof. Chris Potts.

Conference Presentations

  • Pan, D., & Degen, J. (2024). A computational model for projection inferences in clause-embedding predicates. Poster presented at CAMP 2024. Stanford, CA.

  • Pan, D., & Degen, J. (2023). Towards a computational account of projection inferences in clause-embedding predicates. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sydney, Australia.

  • Pan, D., Lu, J., & Degen, J. (2023). Can Manner-of-Speaking Islands be Rescued Through Discourse Foregrounding? Short talk presented at CAMP 2023. Los Angeles, CA.

  • Pan, D., Lu, J., & Degen, J. (2023). Discourse Foregrounding Ameliorates Manner-of-Speaking Islands. Poster presented at HSP 2023. Pittsburgh, PA.