Commitments in Communication

Publications

• Harriet Yates, Bob van Tiel, Peter de Swart and Corien Bary (accepted for publication), The effect of hearsay on speaker commitment: an fEMG study. Open Mind.
 
• Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart and Bob van Tiel (2025), fEMG as a window into conversational commitments. In: Federica Longo and Daniele Panizza (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29, pp. 1765--1783.
 
• Materials of the proof of method study on the OSF website: a list of all experimental items, data analysis files etc.
 
• Corien Bary (2025), Speech acts, common ground and commitments. Linguistics and Philosophy.
 

Presentations

• December 15, 2025, Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Bob van Tiel en Peter de Swart, Using affective response to measure conversational commitments: Evidence from two fEMG studies. Experimental Linguistics Talks Utrecht.
 
• September 17, 2025, Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart and Bob van Tiel, Evidentiality and Speaker Commitment: An fEMG Study. XPrag, Cambrdige.
 
• September 5, 2025, Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart and Bob van Tiel, Evidentiality and Speaker Commitment: An fEMG Study. AMLaP 2025.
 
• May 22, 2025. Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Bob van Tiel and Peter de Swart, fEMG as a window into conversational commitments: validating the method and further applications. Semantics Seminar, Frankfurt.
 
• May 10, 2025. Corien Bary, Commitments in communicatie. Presentation at philosophical festival Drift, Amsterdam.
 
• September 18, 2024. Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart and Bob van Tiel, fEMG as a window into conversational commitments [poster]. SUB 29, Noto.
 
• September 5, 2024. Harriet Yates, Peter de Swart, Bob van Tiel and Corien Bary, fEMG as a window into conversational commitments. AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) 30, Edinburgh.
 
• August 20-21, 2024. Corien Bary, Speech reports, commitments and evidence. Workshop Epistemological and Linguistic Perspectives on Testimony, Stockholm.