Vilde Reksnes
PhD Linguistics & English Language
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: vilde.reksnes@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Qualifications
2020 - present: PhD Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
Working title: Indexing expectations for informativity
2018 MSc Linguistics (Distinction), University of Edinburgh
Dissertation title: An experimental assessment of the strength of linguistic framing effects on reasoning (supervised by Dr Hannah Rohde)
2017 BA Honours English Language and Linguistics (First Class), University of Kent
Dissertation title: Speaker-specific context-variability in absolute gradable adjectives (supervised by Dr Christina Kim)
Responsibilities & affiliations
2020-2022: Co-organiser of MGRG (Meaning and Grammar Research Group), University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate teaching
2023-2024 tutoring:
- Online Experiments for Language Scientists
2022-2023 tutoring:
- Online Experiments for Language Scientists
- Pragmatics
- Linguistics and English Language 1B
- PPLS Skills Centre
2021-2022 tutoring:
- Introduction to Cognitive Science
- Online Experiments for Language Scientists
- Pragmatics
- PPLS Skills Centre
Postgraduate teaching
2023-2024 tutoring:
- Online Experiments for Language Scientists
2022-2023 tutoring:
- Online Experiments for Language Scientists
- Pragmatics
- PPLS Skills Centre
2021-2022 tutoring:
- Online Experiments for Language Scientists
- Pragmatics
- PPLS Skills Centre
Papers delivered
Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2023). Expectations for upcoming content: The role of the addressee. Talk at the 10th Biennial XPRAG Conference.
Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Kucuk, E., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2023). Expectations for upcoming content: Do children reason about speakers' informativity goals?. Poster at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP).
Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Awareness of speaker intentions affects expectations about upcoming content. Talk at the 9th Biennial XPRAG Conference.
Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Guesses about upcoming content reflect awareness of speakers as intentional communicators. Poster at the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP).
Reksnes, V., Rees, A., Cummins, C., & Rohde, H. (2022). Awareness of speakers as intentional communicators affects next-word expectations in a Cloze task. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP) (Online).
Kim, C. S. and Reksnes, V. (2018). Expectations about imprecise language use are speaker-dependent. Talk at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
Kim, C. S. and Reksnes, V. (2017). Speaker-specific expectations about precision. Talk at the 23rd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP).