Commitments

Commitments in Communication

 

News

  • Corien has been invited to present her work on commitment and common ground at the workshop Representing the Common Ground in Tübingen (December 4, 2026).
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  • In September, we will present our fEMG study on scare quotes at XPRAG.it 2026 in Genoa and at DETEC in Utrecht.
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  • Corien has been invited to speak at the workshop At-issueness and Commitment: Interfaces and Interactions at Goethe University Frankfurt (September 21-22).
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  • July 2026: Our paper 'The effect of hearsay on speaker commitment: an fEMG study' has been accepted for publication in Open Mind.
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  • June 2026: We will organize a two-day workshop on the topic of commitment in communication, with a particular focus on experimental approaches to its study.
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  • May 2026: Harriet has presented her research at the Sophia Students Symposium.
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  • April 2026: Thomas van der Leer has joined the NWO project as a PhD candidate.
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  • Harriet has been interviewed by Radboud Recharge about her PhD project.
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  • We have presented our first study on the effect of hearsay evidentiality at AMLaP 2025 in Prague, XPrag 2025 in Cambridge, and at ELITU in Utrecht.
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  • Corien has been invited to give a keynote at the CSSP 2025 in Paris. She will speak about commitments in communication.
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  • July 2025: The project Commitments in Communication has received funding from NWO.
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  • We have uploaded our materials of the proof of method study on the OSF website.
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  • The proof of method paper is published.
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  • Harriet has received a Christine Mohrmann grant which we will use to organize a workshop on the measurement of commitments, scheduled for late Spring 2026.
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